From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 15 14:30:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B125D14DDA for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:30:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA02066; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:30:45 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.1) id RAA61290; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:30:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 17:30:14 -0400 (EDT) To: Doug Rabson Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: hanging buildworld? In-Reply-To: References: <199910151741.TAA63503@yedi.iaf.nl> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14343.40055.874284.249748@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Doug Rabson writes: > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > The process sitting there is the one in 'objtrm' , cpp at pid 10569. > > The machine itself keeps running just fine. > > > > Has anybody else ever seen this? This is sort-of repeatable on my NoName. > > I think other people have reported similar problems. There must be a place > in the VM/VFS where a counter is being updated without using the atomic > macros. I'll talk to Matt about it at the conference. > I think this has been happening for quite some time. We have a set of "stable" machines running -current from July 20th or so where we occasionally see this under extreme load. Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message