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Date:      Thu, 30 Sep 2010 01:49:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
To:        avg@icyb.net.ua
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.org, sterling@camdensoftware.com, freebsd@jdc.parodius.com
Subject:   Re: CPU time accounting broken on 8-STABLE machine after a few hours of uptime
Message-ID:  <201009300849.o8U8nr8r081019@gw.catspoiler.org>
In-Reply-To: <4CA42A0A.6090003@icyb.net.ua>

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On 30 Sep, Andriy Gapon wrote:
> on 30/09/2010 02:27 Don Lewis said the following:

> vmstat -i ?

I didn't see anything odd in the vmstat -i output that I posted to the list
earlier.  It looked more or less normal as the ntp offset suddenly went
insane.
 
>> I did manage to catch the problem with lock profiling enabled:
>> <http://people.freebsd.org/~truckman/AN-M2_HD-8.1-STABLE_lock_profile_freeze.txt>;
>> I'm currently testing SMP some more to verify if it really avoids this
>> problem.
> 
> OK.

I wasn't able to cause SMP on stable to break.

The silent reboots that I was seeing with WITNESS go away if I add
WITNESS_SKIPSPIN.  Witness doesn't complain about anything.

I tested -CURRENT and !SMP seems to work ok.  One difference in terms of
hardware between the two tests is that I'm using a SATA drive when
testing -STABLE and a SCSI drive when testing -CURRENT.

At this point, I think the biggest clues are going to be in the lock
profile results.




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