From: DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR ( SDaubigne@bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com ) (SDaubigne@bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com)
Date: Fri May 16 2003 - 11:14:28 EDT
Additionnal information : This is not related to /dev/kstat (However, thank
you Haywood Steven).
It is related to the poll() syscall.
(mp,vm,io)stat commands all issue poll(0,0,<INTERVAL>) syscalls to sleep
between each sample (instead of an alarm() + sigsuspend() combination used
by sar and sleep commands).
For instance on a sane host :
# truss -aeflv all vmstat 5 3
(....)
12687/1: poll(0x00000000, 0, 5000) (sleeping...)
(......... 5 seconds sleep .............)
12687/1: poll(0x00000000, 0, 5000) = 0
(...)
This didn't work when our host went bad. The poll(0x00000000, 0, 5000)
waited indefinitely (instead of 5 seconds).
I've reproduced the bug with the following small C program :
#include <poll.h>
#include<stdio.h>
main(){
if(poll(0,0,5000)<0)
perror("poll");
}
On a sane host, it waits 5 seconds. On our bad host, it waits indefinitely.
Other applications hang on semop() calls.
Looks strange.
Any suggestion ?
--- Sebastien DAUBIGNE sdaubigne@bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com <mailto:sdaubigne@bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com> - (+33)5.57.26.56.36 SchlumbergerSema - SGS/DWH/Pessac -----Message d'origine----- De: DAUBIGNE Sebastien - BOR ( SDaubigne@bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com ) Date: vendredi 16 mai 2003 14:36 @: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org; sunhelp@sunhelp.org Objet: Solaris 2.6 : some syscalls Hanging Solaris 2.6, kernel 105181-28. We'got some processes "hanging" (i.e. with blocking syscalls): vmstat, iostat, mpstat are hanging on poll() syscall : they open "/dev/kstat", issue some ioctl() on.it, and wait for data with poll(). But, poll() never returns. sar is working fine (note that it doesn't use poll()). We also have some Oracle background and shadow processes hanging on semop() Other processes are working fine (those that don't call poll() or semop()). It seems some kernel syscall (at least poll() and semop()) are waiting indefinitely : Looks like some deadlock. System activity is low (sar shows 70% CPU free, lots of memory free, no page scan). The only thing I can't see is mutex contention, as mpstat is hanging. Any idea ? --- Sebastien DAUBIGNE sdaubigne@bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com <mailto:sdaubigne@bordeaux-bersol.sema.slb.com> - (+33)5.57.26.56.36 SchlumbergerSema - SGS/DWH/Pessac _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers _______________________________________________ sunmanagers mailing list sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org http://www.sunmanagers.org/mailman/listinfo/sunmanagers
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