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Date:      Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:56:32 +1100 (EST)
From:      David Dawes <dawes@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
To:        joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: another dup alloc panic.
Message-ID:  <199702200756.SAA03260@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <Mutt.19970220074830.j@uriah.heep.sax.de> from J Wunsch at "Feb 20, 97 07:48:30 am"

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>>  Although this was personal mail - I'm taking the liberty of reflecting
>> it to freebsd-hackers so it will go into the archives...
>
>(David G:)
>> > 
>> >    It's really weird that you're seeing these panics so often. 
>
>> >                                                           I've not seen
>> > this on wcarchive (19 disk drives, all very busy), and I haven't seen it
>> > on a local news server (which gets a full news feed and delivers news
>> > to dozens of other sites). ...it just seems really strange that this
>> > problem is hitting you so often when I've *never* seen it happen.
>> 
>>  Yes - that's been the paradox ever since it started....
>
>Well, maybe Thomas, we probably have only seen this happening on 386
>CPUs so far?  This would explain why only few people see it.

I reported that I saw it recently on a Pentium (SCSI disk on an NCR
controller).  This is with 2.2 from a couple of weeks ago.  I've only
seen it once so far and it happened while repopulating a partition that
had just been newfs'd.

David



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