Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 13:08:51 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM out-of-swap problems Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9809251253080.96-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <22915.906691721@time.cdrom.com>
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On Thu, 24 Sep 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > It seems that way to more folks than just you, but rest assured that > if it were that simple to get bugs of long-standing evilness > eradicated just before a major release, we'd make it a policy to do so > without a second thought. Unfortunately, this one is just a bit Fair enough, I hadn't realised it was something which had been around for so long - I thought it was new 'behaviour' which was introcued into current. The impression I got from recent discussions was that lots of people had an idea of where he problem lay and how to look for it, but I guess either this is a case of words speaking softer than actions or me not paying close enough attention :-) > welcome to try your hand at it, in fact, since we're definitely well > into the stage where general debugging assistance on this specific > problem is being eagerly solicited. It certainly wouldn't hurt. I'd like to learn more about FreeBSD's internals at some point, but unfortunately I have this little matter of a thesis hanging over my head (it's my own personal 3.0-RELEASE, yay! :-) Since there's a workaround and it's not specifically a problem with 3.0, I guess I can live with it if no-one manages to make any progress in the next month :-) > and the "VM experts" tend to be busy enough that they're not going to > be able to make much progress with nothing more that a "junk pointer" > printf(). This problem needs to be instrumented like a lab experiment > and far more data gathered first. Well, if anyone does want to take a crack at this and would like some detailed information about a system when it exhibits the problem, please contact me with the kinds of information which would be helpful and I'll see if I can provide it. Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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