From owner-freebsd-alpha Sun Oct 17 6:26:48 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 630FA14E46 for ; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 06:26:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id PAA29388; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:17:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id PAA72027; Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:14:25 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wilko) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199910171314.PAA72027@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: hanging buildworld? In-Reply-To: from Doug Rabson at "Oct 16, 1999 7:43:21 pm" To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Date: Sun, 17 Oct 1999 15:14:25 +0200 (CEST) Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-pgp-info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org As Doug Rabson wrote ... > On Sat, 16 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > As Doug Rabson wrote ... > > > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > > The process sitting there is the one in 'objtrm' , cpp at pid 10569. > > > > The machine itself keeps running just fine. > > > > Has anybody else ever seen this? This is sort-of repeatable on my NoName. > > > I think other people have reported similar problems. There must be a place > > > in the VM/VFS where a counter is being updated without using the atomic > > > macros. I'll talk to Matt about it at the conference. > > > > OK, I'm not alone then :) It also happened a couple of times already that > > a process (in this case csh and once also vgrind) went into a infinite loop. > > This was on a different Alpha box BTW, but with the same -current src tree. > > Could this be a manifestation of the same basic cause? > > I got an 'objde1' hang today which is probably caused by the same thing. > I have a good idea of how to track this thing down but I probably won't > get to it until after FreeBSDCon. As for the csh/vgrind problem: looks that's been solved by manually 'make'ing and installing csh. I'm now rerunning buildworld on the machine that suffered from the looping csh. Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message