Date: Sun, 1 Mar 1998 02:55:33 -0500 From: Norman C Rice <nrice@emu.sourcee.com> To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, jb@cimlogic.com.au, joe@via.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: help - make world fails Message-ID: <19980301025533.18356@emu.sourcee.com> In-Reply-To: <199803010741.CAA01681@dyson.iquest.net>; from John S. Dyson on Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:41:21AM -0500 References: <19980228234146.52327@mcs.net> <199803010741.CAA01681@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Sun, Mar 01, 1998 at 02:41:21AM -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > Karl Denninger said: > > > > I'm still trying to find out where -CURRENT is right now in terms of > > stability and what does/doesn't work. As a result this is pretty germane to > > me at the moment, but I don't have commit access and don't understand why > > those changes were made anyway (which means I wouldn't back them out without > > knowing). > > > I am NOT super-happy with NFS yet. I have a regression and performance > test suite that I run before committing VM code (believe it or not), and > NFS doesn't pass a critical test (paging.) It panics the system with > an infamous biodone error, and I will try to track it down tomorrow. > > I am freezing the current state of my VM work, except for bugfixes, > and perhaps some threads or AIO things (which are not part of the > core system.) Hopefully, we will be stable (with some anecdotal > evidence) soon, and I want to track (watch) the VFS layering changes > carefully. All of the above will fill my available time. > > I think that the system is very close to stable again, with the > NFS caveat. Once I can solve the (very reproduceable) problem, > I will be much happier with NFS. There are also some outstanding > bugfixes for NFS, which I am working with in my local tree... Would any of those outstanding ``bug fixes'' resolve the issue with NFS client freezing the system when the server is non-responsive? -- Regards, Norman C. Rice, Jr. > > -- > John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, > dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, > jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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