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Date:      Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:09:02 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken@plutotech.com>
Cc:        Jos.Backus@nl.origin-it.com (Jos Backus), hardware@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Buslogic/Mylex HAs 
Message-ID:  <199809131809.LAA06566@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:36:21 MDT." <199809131736.LAA05042@panzer.plutotech.com> 

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> I've seen panics on -stable and -current with cdda2wav; they seem to be
> related to shared memory usage.  It'll probably take someone more familiar
> with the VM system to sort them out, though.  The problem doesn't seem to
> be directly attributable to CAM, but it my be exacerbated by CAM.
> 
> It looks like cdrecord uses shared memory as well, so the panic may be
> similar.  Can you send me a stack trace?

Just out of curiosity, does the CAM stack use a lazy mechanism for
cleaning up after transfers?  It sounds very much like what's happening
here is that the process has been doing I/O to the shared memory 
segment, finishes and attempts to delete the segment, but parts of it 
are still marked busy.

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