From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Mar 14 17:34:18 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49B2637B718; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:34:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from beppo (beppo [192.67.166.79]) by feral.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA15641; Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:34:19 -0800 Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 17:34:15 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: John Baldwin Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deadlocks, whee! In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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. :( > > -- > > John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ > PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc > "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message