From owner-cvs-all Tue Jun 27 17:40: 9 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from florence.pavilion.net (florence.pavilion.net [212.74.0.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A328037C42B; Tue, 27 Jun 2000 17:39:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: from genius.systems.pavilion.net (genesis.tao.org.uk [194.242.131.254]) by florence.pavilion.net (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA40860; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:39:48 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from joe@pavilion.net) Received: by genius.systems.pavilion.net (Postfix, from userid 100) id 8C7CC12547; Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:41:11 +0100 (BST) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:41:11 +0100 From: Josef Karthauser To: Steve Kargl Cc: Matthew Jacob , Akinori -Aki- MUSHA , andrews@technologist.com, mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.h ffs_softdep.c Message-ID: <20000628014111.F19558@pavilion.net> References: <20000628012956.B19558@pavilion.net> <200006280041.RAA03048@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: <200006280041.RAA03048@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>; from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:41:28PM -0700 X-NCC-RegID: uk.pavilion Organisation: Pavilion Internet plc, Lees House, 21-23 Dyke Road, Brighton, England Phone: +44-845-333-5000 Fax: +44-845-333-5001 Mobile: +44-403-596893 Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:41:28PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote: > > Could be a softupdates and ccd interaction? That's what we thought at the time - since then we've moved the spool over to a DPT smart cache V controller (using Simon Shapiro's patches to 3.4). > > More recently a friend of mine was having crashes doing a make > > world under 4.0 with SMP and softupdate. Switching softupdates > > off caused the crashes to go away. > > Was the FS nearly full or exceeding 100% full? SU is/was known > to have problems if you were running under these conditions. > Not to my knowledge - I'm guessing that it was relatively empty. > > > Is anyone else here using softupdates in an SMP environment? > > > > Of course ;-) I've been using SU since Kirk allowed it to be > included in FreeBSD. I haven't had a SU crash for a long, long, > time, and I've never completely lose a FS. Us neither which is why it's so worrying. Joe To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message