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Date:      Mon, 11 Dec 2000 01:11:19 +0100
From:      Philipp Mergenthaler <un1i@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fix for pageout_flush panic (was Re: panic: vm_pageout_flush: partially dirty page)
Message-ID:  <20001211011119.B21036@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
In-Reply-To: <200012102334.eBANYWm87853@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:34:32PM -0800
References:  <20001210033546.A13896@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <200012102334.eBANYWm87853@earth.backplane.com>

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On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 03:34:32PM -0800, Matt Dillon wrote:
> :ever since this commit: ...
> :
> :dillon      2000/11/18 15:06:27 PST
> : 
> :   Modified files:
> :    sys/kern             vfs_bio.c vfs_cluster.c vfs_subr.c
> 
>     Hmm.  Very odd.  It's catching a fully valid file page which is 
>     marked partially dirty, less then a kilobyte in size, mapped
>     into memory but not associated with a buffer.  m->dirty is
>     0xFC (roughly equivalent to 3584 bytes, but the file is only 932
>     bytes long.

/usr/local/news/etc#wc active
      23      92     932 active

Innd does mmap the active file, but I don't know what it does with it.
I'll look at it; maybe I can construct a simpler example.

>     I would recommend *NOT* using -current for a production news machine!!!!

Of course not, this is just a mini archive of my favourite newsgroups. :-)

>     If you can repeat the problem under -stable (which has the same patch
>     set), that will give me more of a base to work from.

Ok, I'll try that.

Bye, Philipp



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