From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 9:22:38 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.du.gtn.com (mail.du.gtn.com [194.77.9.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C0037B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 09:22:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.cicely.de (cicely.de [194.231.9.142]) by mail.du.gtn.com (8.11.0.Beta3/8.11.0.Beta3) with ESMTP id eAGHMNj21596 (using TLSv1/SSLv3 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168 bits) verified OK); Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:22:25 +0100 (MET) Received: from cicely8.cicely.de (cicely8.cicely.de [10.1.2.10]) by mail.cicely.de (8.11.0.Beta1/8.11.0.Beta1) with ESMTP id eAGHMG511820; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:22:16 +0100 (CET) Received: (from ticso@localhost) by cicely8.cicely.de (8.11.0/8.9.2) id eAGHMCO11831; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:22:12 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from ticso) Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 18:22:12 +0100 From: Bernd Walter To: Andrew Gallatin Cc: Christian Weisgerber , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SMPng stability Message-ID: <20001116182212.A11802@cicely8.cicely.de> References: <14867.63252.979175.633781@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <8v1245$7d8$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <14868.3077.993148.862591@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <14868.3077.993148.862591@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>; from gallatin@cs.duke.edu on Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:35:24AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 11:35:24AM -0500, Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Christian Weisgerber writes: > > Andrew Gallatin 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!!! Christians box always booted into single user mode if I remember right. I asume it has something to do with the number of controllers/disks that he has more luck. It takes longer than 5 seconds for my SCSI probing ;) > > > 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? Use the latest source. John had commited something related WITNESS today. I got a panic early in the boot which I asume is fixed with his commit: [...] isa_probe_children: probing PnP devices Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz Timecounter "alpha" frequency 500004746 Hz bpf: lo0 attached ../../kern/kern_synch.c:608: sleeping with "Giant" locked from ../../kern/init_main.c:392 witness_sleep Stopped at Debugger+0x2c: ldq ra,0(sp) <0xfffffc00006739f0> -- B.Walter COSMO-Project http://www.cosmo-project.de ticso@cicely.de Usergroup info@cosmo-project.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message