QNX 6.5 freeze complete

QNX USERS QNX6 - OS
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Hello,
I have the following problem. I have a QNX 6.5 system which freezes regularly. The whole thing happens as follows.
First, the graphical user interface becomes sluggish, then the machine is still customizable but services like FTP or Telnet do not work anymore. Finally, the machine can no longer be pinged and must be restarted.
I can’t find any hints in the syslog.
Unfortunately I do not know where to start.
The QNX system is running as a virtual machine on an ESXi 7.0 from VMware.
I am grateful for every tip.
Many greetings

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To things to try why the system is running. For both, it might help to set priority of a shell very high so you don’t get frozen out.

  1. hogs
  2. pidin. (look for processes that are in Ready mode
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Hi,

@maschoen , how do you set the priority of a shell ?

Nicolas

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You could use the nice command:

nice -n-10 sh

or the “on” command

I think there is an easier way. There was some command you enter to tell sh to set the priority of future commands. Then you run sh to put your sh at that priority. I’ll try to look it up when I have more time.

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We use tinit in our sysinit file to spawn our login prompts and we spawn one with a high priority on con6.

Tim

P.S. How much control over your QNX machine do you have? Can you exit your application and/or the Photon GUI. Can you start a Photon shell etc. How long before it gets sluggish etc.

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@maschoen, @Tim Thanks for your answer.
I’ve already had to investigate on overloaded system without success (top and hogs where outputting nothing). I didn’t think to run sh at higher priority. Good idea I’ll try next time. Thanks