From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 17 11:50:41 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5CFA16A4D2 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:50:41 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F2F6343D41 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:50:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ben@spooty.net) Received: from m114-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net ([80.1.84.114]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.comESMTP <20041017114954.LQKX13844.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@m114-mp1.cvx3-b.pop.dial.ntli.net> for ; Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:49:54 +0100 From: Ben Paley To: FreeBSD Questions Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 12:38:04 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200410171238.04809.ben@spooty.net> Subject: Giant and MPSAFE X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 17 Oct 2004 11:50:41 -0000 Hello, bash-2.05b$ uname -a FreeBSD potato.hogsedge.net 5.3-BETA5 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA5 #0: Mon Sep 20 07:49:52 BST 2004 root@potato.hogsedge.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/POTATO i386 I've just noticed a nasty looking message at boot: WARNING: debug.mpsafenet forced to 0 as aio requires Giant WARNING: MPSAFE network stack disabled, expect reduced performance. And then subsequently there are a good few references to things being (from memory) [GIANT LOCKED] Anyone have any idea what this is about, and if it's actually bad, and how I can sort it out? Thanks a lot, Ben