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Date:      Tue, 8 Mar 2005 02:45:26 +0000
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Chiang Seng Chang <cs@ctzen.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Help with GIANT-LOCKED in REL5.3
Message-ID:  <20050308024526.GB48072@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <422D04CE.10909@ctzen.com>
References:  <422D04CE.10909@ctzen.com>

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On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 08:50:06PM -0500, Chiang Seng Chang wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Anyone knows if GIANT-LOCKED is something new in 5.3 ?

It's just a status message, under earlier versions (4.x) the ENTIRE
KERNEL was giant locked.

Kris



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