From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 09:04:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA09692 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:04:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from smtp01.primenet.com (smtp01.primenet.com [206.165.6.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA09673 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 09:04:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert@usr02.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp01.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA09830; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:04:15 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr02.primenet.com(206.165.6.202) via SMTP by smtp01.primenet.com, id smtpd009768; Mon Mar 2 10:04:06 1998 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr02.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA14250; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 10:04:04 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199803021704.KAA14250@usr02.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Panic with CURRENT & softupdates-240298 To: roberto@eurocontrol.fr (Ollivier Robert) Date: Mon, 2 Mar 1998 17:04:04 +0000 (GMT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19980302172959.38382@caerdonn.eurocontrol.fr> from "Ollivier Robert" at Mar 2, 98 05:29:59 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Running a CURRENT kernel with the softupdate code of 2/24/98 leads to the > following panic. It is always failing at the same place in > "softdep_setup_allocindir_page". > > Now, it is procmail that trigger the problem although the filesystem in > question is not very heavily used. > > /dev/sd1s1h on /home (local, noatime, soft-updates, writes: sync 4 async 367) Is this always, or only "mostly", repeatable? I would seriously suggest that you turn off "noatime", and try to repeat this again. The "noatime" is probably something which should be disallowed with soft updates; I'm not sire, but I believe the dependency resolvers make certain assumptions about the relationship graphs, and that might include subgraph vector length (which you would change by disabling the atime change node creation). Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message