From owner-freebsd-current Tue Aug 25 18:41:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA18551 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:41:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA18546 for ; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 18:41:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00967; Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:40:55 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199808260140.UAA00967@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Serious bug in vm_page.h in current In-Reply-To: <199808260001.UAA03536@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Aug 25, 98 08:01:47 pm" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Tue, 25 Aug 1998 20:40:55 -0500 (EST) Cc: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, dfr@nlsystems.com, dyson@iquest.net, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Garrett Wollman said: > < > > This sounds very much like it could be related to the lockup Matt > > Dillon and I have been seeing. I just rebooted newsswitch with this > > change in it; I should know by the end of the day whether it had > > any effect. > > newsswitch has been up for more than nine hours now, which is longer > than it had been lasting. I'll give it a full day before proclaiming > success, though. > Yep, I did provide some info to Matt about this a few days ago, and I suspect that we would let me know if there were NEW problems. If this fixes it, it is indeed amazing how subtile some parts of the system are. I am really hoping that someone really does "get their arms" around the VM/VFS_BIO code -- and I am willing to help them as needed. The VM code is something that is tricky, even if you understand it. Also, IMO, the more people willing to become a/the VM czar, the better!!! -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message