From owner-freebsd-current Sat Oct 17 02:35:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA18425 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:35:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18420 for ; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 02:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id LAA09826; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:34:47 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199810170934.LAA09826@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: softupdates/smp In-Reply-To: from Chuck Robey at "Oct 17, 98 00:37:55 am" To: chuckr@mat.net (Chuck Robey) Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 11:34:47 +0200 (CEST) Cc: donegan@quick.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In reply to Chuck Robey who wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Steven P. Donegan wrote: > > > After a long biz trip and other adventures... > > > > I finally got back to the list, and compiled today's kernel (SMP). Tried > > a boot - no problem. Turned on softupdates on the disk (tunefs -n > > enable). Boot proceeded and then tombstone. Is softupdates viable on > > anyone's hardware at present under SMP? > > Solid here. With CAM and softupdates. Buildworlds like crazy. Wasn't > always that way, but is now. Real good, this machine get's used heavily > for schoolwork (I shouldn't run current on it, but I've been too heavily > infected with FreeBSD). > > It's a dual P6-166, Tyan Titan II. Wouldn't part with it for the world. You are lucky I guess, I still think we have race problems in there, at least it breaks real fast on a make work -j8 or above on resonably fast hardware here, and remember your filesystem is then beyond repair... -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message