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Date:      Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:34:15 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Deadlocks, whee!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0103141733070.77146-100000@beppo.feral.com>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010314152159.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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btw- it's been true for quite some time that ithreads seem to get dropped and
not addressed- at least I think that this might be what would explain isp
timeouts during makeworlds.


When you deadlock'd your alpha, did you go and brew a cup of tea? What's your
quantum for determining deadlock?


On Wed, 14 Mar 2001, John Baldwin wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I managed to deadlock my alpha yesterday with a -j 4 buildworld.  Previously it
> would die when it trapped with a raised IPL as a blockable mtx_lock() of lockmgr
> in trap().  I'm not sure if these two things are related or not.  I'll try a
> normal world without -j X today to see if it fairs better.  Just FYI for those
> running current that heavy load may deadlock right now. :(
> 
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