Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 23:32:50 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, "Dave J. Boers" <djb@wit389306.student.utwente.nl>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Still system hangs, but different Message-ID: <20000111233250.R9397@fw.wintelcom.net> In-Reply-To: <200001120703.XAA67832@apollo.backplane.com>; from dillon@apollo.backplane.com on Tue, Jan 11, 2000 at 11:03:27PM -0800 References: <20000112054825.436AB61@pinyon.org> <200001120703.XAA67832@apollo.backplane.com>
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* Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> [000111 23:27] wrote: > :%:I have. > :% > :% Wait a sec. I've reviewed all the messages from you and I think something > :% got mixed together. I'm not convinced that your particular problems > :% are softupdates related. I recommend turning off softupdates entirely > :% for a few days to find out. > : > :Oh they are quite surely softupdates related. > : > :I got the "X still sorta works but anything that touches the disk wedges" > :flu today on a very current current. Triggered by a cc build on > :(soft) linked filesystem, cured by reverting back a week or so. > : > :And yes, it is quite certainly v. 1.47 and ata. > : > :NBD..., if it was a real barrier to progress I'd disable softupdates. > : > :Regards, > :Russell > > I think what we need to concentrate on is figuring out exactly what > is being wedged on. Hence my DDB suggestion below. > > Reverting to an old -current doesn't guarentee that it's softupdates. > If you turn off softupdates with tunefs on the filesystems and see > if it occurs with a new kernel that will tell us for sure. (But the > DDB suggestion is more important, that will tell us exactly what is > going on). I'm finding it easy to reboot a box by simply doing a cvsup and downloading a repo, I'm recompiling everything right now without softupdates but if you wanted what seems to be an easy to reproduce crash, try checking out the postgresql repo via cvsup. -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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