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Date:      Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:35:24 -0500 (EST)
From:      Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
To:        naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: SMPng stability
Message-ID:  <14868.3077.993148.862591@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
In-Reply-To: <8v1245$7d8$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
References:  <14867.63252.979175.633781@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <8v1245$7d8$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>

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Christian Weisgerber writes:
 > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
 > 
 > > John Baldwin's most recent commits (the ones leading up to WITNESS
 > > working) seem to have improved the stability SMPng on alpha.  I'd urge
 > > anybody who is having -current stability problems on alpha to update
 > > your sources and try a new kernel.
 > > 
 > > Heck, this might even help the PC164 situation..
 > 
 > Well...  It didn't get stuck while probing for SCSI devices.  It
 > actually booted into single user mode.  Just to do something from

Hurray!!!

 > there I started an fsck of a scratch partition, wedging the box
 > within five seconds or so.

Do you have:

options         DDB
options         BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER
options         MUTEX_DEBUG
options         WITNESS
options         WITNESS_DDB

In your config file?   If not, can you try a kernel with those
options?

Thanks,

Drew


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