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Date:      Thu, 29 Sep 2005 09:34:08 +0200
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Don Lewis <truckman@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: stress test deadlock involving vm and/or geom 
Message-ID:  <7056.1127979248@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Sep 2005 00:31:02 PDT." <200509290731.j8T7V2OR007019@gw.catspoiler.org> 

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In message <200509290731.j8T7V2OR007019@gw.catspoiler.org>, Don Lewis writes:

>(kgdb) print runningbufspace
>$3 = 1585152
>(kgdb) print lorunningspace
>$4 = 524288
>print hirunningspace
>$5 = 1048576
>
>so runningbufspace >> hirunningspace
>
>The bufdaemon and the syncer both ignore the runningbufspace limit.
>Maybe they should obey the limit, but each be guaranteed a minimum
>quota.

I'm not quite sure what a/the sensible solution is, but the
lemming-syncer certainly is my prime suspect.

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