Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:43:25 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, Kirk McKusick <mckusick@mckusick.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Giving up on buffers Message-ID: <200102252343.f1PNhQY01286@billy-club.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "25 Feb 2001 14:00:53 %2B0100." <xzppug6j4sa.fsf_-_@flood.ping.uio.no> References: <xzppug6j4sa.fsf_-_@flood.ping.uio.no> <200102231206.EAA12234@beastie.mckusick.com> <200102231756.f1NHuAX83112@earth.backplane.com>
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In message <xzppug6j4sa.fsf_-_@flood.ping.uio.no> Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes: : > (2) the I/O for the buffer synchronization is initiated but interrupts : > are winding up being disabled by the halt code due to holding Giant : > and not sleeping (more likely). That all I can think of. We've hit : > the interrupt disablement problem before in -current, it's probably : > something simliar. : : Sounds likely. On my laptop, the "giving up on n buffers" message is : usually accompanied by an ata0 timeout. Just FYI: ata isn't printing a timeout for me. However, I have had several panics with the lpt problem which freeze the system hard in the syncing buffers. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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