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Date:      29 Mar 1998 20:36:45 -0600
From:      Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>
To:        dyson@freebsd.org, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Signal 11's.. (and SCB problems)
Message-ID:  <x7afa8gb0i.fsf@sierra.covalent.net>
In-Reply-To: "John S. Dyson"'s message of "Sun, 29 Mar 1998 00:24:42 -0500 (EST)"
References:  <199803290524.AAA24173@dyson.iquest.net>

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"John S. Dyson" <dyson@freebsd.org> writes:
> Chris Csanady said:
> > While building a world, I recently noticed that I was getting random
> > signal 11's.  I was under the impression that this was fixed earlier,
> > is this correct?
> > 
> > I suppose this is probably related to the SCB problems, but I can't
> > say.  Is anyone else seeing similar problems?
> > 
> > Regardless, SMP is still miserable here.  I seem to have similar SCB
> > hangs (that I mentioned earlier) running UP as well, although they
> > are fairly rare.
> > 
> I have been working on some improvements, and have noticed that it
> is possible (with only minor mods) to cause sig-11's.  It is too early
> to say whether or not I am reproducing what you are seeing, and I
> currently doubt it.  Just FYI, I am listening (lurking), and not
> assuming that things are perfect on the VM and VFS fronts.

FTR - I discovered recently that some of the page fault storms and
general instability was caused by AHC_ALLOW_MEMIO. Creation of files
during compiles, etc. were creating files containing random garbage
from what appeared to be other random open files.



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