Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2002 18:24:08 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net> To: Glenn Gombert <ggombert@imatowns.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Call for UMA (allocator) testers. Message-ID: <20020311182326.F80030-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.20020310160933.00dae0a8@imatowns.com>
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I have received a few reports of panics when loading modules. If you're going to run it you may want to staticly compile in pseudofs/procfs, etc. Thanks, Jeff On Sun, 10 Mar 2002, Glenn Gombert wrote: > I have the UMA patch installed on two systems here, a 500Mhz K7 system and > dual PIII SMP box, both of which have WITNESS and INVARIANTS configured in > the kernel. I will run them for the next few days, and report anything that > looks unusual in operation :) > > GG. > > > >I'd like people to test with WITNESS and INVARIANTS, although with these > >options on it is somewhat slower than the original kernel. With these > >disabled it is on par. If you have a SMP machine you will get witness > >warnings if you run low on memory. There is no real problem except that > >witness doesn't understand that the condition is safe. > > > >If you do test this patch, please send me an email so I know how many > >people are using this. If you get a lock order violation other than > >"acquring duplicate lock of same type" please let me know. If you get a > >panic, please give me a stack trace (tr in ddb) and the output of "call > >uma_print_stats" in the debugger if that is possible. > > > >This has been debugged and tested over several months so it is quite > >stable for me. Hopefully it will be stable for you too. :-) > > > >The patch and new files are available at: > >http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/uma.tar > > > >Untar into src/sys and apply the patch. After you rerun config you should > >be ready to compile. > > > >Thanks, > >Jeff > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > Glenn Gombert > ggombert@imatowns.com > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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