From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Mar 14 20:05:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA01928 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 20:05:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sasami.jurai.net (winter@sasami.jurai.net [207.153.65.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA01907 for ; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 20:05:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from winter@jurai.net) Received: from localhost (winter@localhost) by sasami.jurai.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA25797; Sat, 14 Mar 1998 23:05:43 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 23:05:43 -0500 (EST) From: "Matthew N. Dodd" To: gene@cif.rochester.edu cc: freebsd-bugs@hub.freebsd.org Subject: Re:bin/4975:quotaonwhileserververybusycauseslockup/reboot In-Reply-To: <199803142250.OAA13386@hub.freebsd.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 14 Mar 1998 gene@cif.rochester.edu wrote: > 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 think that you are probably the only one that is encountering this bug because everyone else is turning quotas on at boot, when the system is more or less idle. I've been running quotas on my system since 2.1R with no problems. You should not be doing quota{on,off,check} on active filesystems. /* Matthew N. Dodd | A memory retaining a love you had for life winter@jurai.net | As cruel as it seems nothing ever seems to http://www.jurai.net/~winter | go right - FLA M 3.1:53 */ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message