Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 18:16:09 -0700 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Cliff Skolnick <cliff@steam.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vm_fault deadlock and PR 8416 (was Re: Strange reboot saga ) Message-ID: <199905110116.SAA00175@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 17:22:50 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101717560.453-100000@lazlo.internal.steam.com>
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> >After removing the patch from my system, poof - deadlock. > >I did the ctl-printscrean thing, and everything looked ok. There were a >bunch of locks, shared, but I could not make much sense beyond the "ps" and >doing a trace which did not give me much info since I could not figure out >how to trace a specific process. :( > >Anyways this is a production email and dns system, so I can't futz with it >too much. I've added the patch in and expect my system will run again until >*I* take it down. Usually it locks up within 24 hours without the patch, >and it has run 4+ days with no lockup with the patch. After 4 days I took >the system down to remote the patch and add debugging to my kernel, monday >rolls around and poof - locked up. > >I would urge someone who has more of a clue about the locking issues to take >a look at this. There are two patches mentioned in PR 8416...which one are you using? -DG David Greenman Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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