From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 17 06:35:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA12280 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:35:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gaia.euronet.nl (gaia.euronet.nl [194.134.0.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA12275 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 06:35:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcel@scc.nl) Received: from scones.sup.scc.nl (i017.ztm.euronet.nl [194.134.112.18]) by gaia.euronet.nl (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA07970 from for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:35:17 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by scones.sup.scc.nl (8.9.1/8.9.1) id PAA23546 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 15:10:37 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from marcel) Message-Id: <199810171310.PAA23546@scones.sup.scc.nl> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Marcel Moolenaar Subject: Re: softupdates/smp Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 14:54:47 +0200 Organization: S.C.C. vof References: <199810170934.LAA09826@sos.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5b2 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-BETA i386) X-Accept-Language: en Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sxren Schmidt wrote: > > Solid here. With CAM and softupdates. Buildworlds like crazy. Wasn't > > always that way, but is now. Real good, this machine get's used heavily > > for schoolwork (I shouldn't run current on it, but I've been too heavily > > infected with FreeBSD). > > > > It's a dual P6-166, Tyan Titan II. Wouldn't part with it for the world. > > You are lucky I guess, I still think we have race problems in there, at > least it breaks real fast on a make work -j8 or above on resonably > fast hardware here, and remember your filesystem is then beyond repair... This both confuses and worries me. I'm running softupdates on a SMP (dual PII-266) machine with CAM with no problems. I don't have problems when running make -jX buildworld, with X >= 8, either. I'm running SMP for more than 4 months and softupdates for at least 6 weeks (I don't remember exactly, but I enabled it to test the latest patches for it). Now I'm being told I'm lucky? I remember a discussion about exactly this a couple of months ago. I'm surprised that there still is no consensus (albeit vague) on the current state of SMP and softupdates. I accept all consequences for running -current and even throw in some alpha/beta-testing effort when resources permit it, but I'm not generally happy when my filesystems FUBAR. Can SMP and softupdates FUBAR my filesystems or can it still be repaired (modulo bugs) by fsck? marcel To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message