Date: Sun, 7 Jun 1998 11:43:41 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: mbriggs@switchboard.net (Matthew R. Briggs) Cc: toor@dyson.iquest.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New SMP perf/quality snapshot Message-ID: <199806071643.LAA03398@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <357ABF4C.163AB046@switchboard.net> from "Matthew R. Briggs" at "Jun 7, 98 12:26:52 pm"
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> Hello, > I'm pleased to say that the new SMP snapshot is a LOT more stable on my > dual-333 system. I mentioned earlier that I could crash it on demand > with parallel makes, but that hasn't happened for a while. I've had > only one crash after a fairly heavy beating, but the crash was more like > a freeze and left nothing in the logs. Still, a big improvement. > Thanks John for your hard work! > The problem is probably either: 1) problems with UPAGE swapping. 2) still a timing window for SMP. 3) a subtile bug in page (or other resource) locking, that deadlocks the system. I'll try to look into it, but I will be very busy this next week. Thanks for the feedback, and it seems to me that the code is getting very close to being correct!!! John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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