Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:50:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, (Christian Weisgerber) <naddy@mips.inka.de> Subject: Re: SMPng stability Message-ID: <XFMail.001116115023.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <14868.3077.993148.862591@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On 16-Nov-00 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > 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? Hmm, I would add in 'INVARIANTS' and 'INVARIANT_SUPPORT' but wouldn't put in WITNESS_DDB yet. :) > Thanks, > > Drew -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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