Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 14:50:02 -0800 (PST) From: gene@cif.rochester.edu To: freebsd-bugs Subject: Re:bin/4975:quotaonwhileserververybusycauseslockup/reboot Message-ID: <199803142250.OAA13386@hub.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR bin/4975; it has been noted by GNATS. From: gene@cif.rochester.edu To: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org, toasty@dragondata.com Cc: Subject: Re:bin/4975:quotaonwhileserververybusycauseslockup/reboot Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:44:05 -0500 (EST) I would like to bring this pr once again to the attention of the freebsd-bugs readers. I have been able to produce this behaviour under low load at seemingly random times under FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE. Twice within about six hours quotaon -a hung the system. I believe this pr should be upgraded to a priority of medium or critical as I am currently running a prduction system with quotas off because I cannot afford the crashes. However, I do have good news in this gloom and doom. That is that I was able to get kernel backtraces of the system each time it was in a crash state. Both times, the kernel packed "page fault in kernel address space" (or similar) in the dqget() function. That may be of some help in finding the problem. I'm thinking it is a dma concurrency issue possibly or a race condition that may have its real origins in the vfs, but I'm neither an i386 junky nor a person familiar with the new FreeBSD vfs, so I can't go bug-hunting. If someone eneds some other informaiton on this, please feel free to contact me. Gene To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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