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Date:      Thu, 9 Aug 2001 10:38:50 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        Sean Kelly <smkelly@zombie.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: Random Lockups
Message-ID:  <200108091438.f79EcoR15538@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <XFMail.010808075357.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20010807234645.A573@edgemaster.zombie.org> <XFMail.010808075357.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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<<On Wed, 08 Aug 2001 07:53:57 -0700 (PDT), John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

> Usually it involves an NMI switch. :(  Can you cvs (or cvsup) by dates on the
> kernel sources to narrow down exactly what day (and possibly what commit)
> causes these lockups?  I.e., does it work fine on August 4th, but break on
> August 5th?

I have a July 26th kernel which every week or so deadlocks on an inode
while I'm sending mail.  The resulting race-to-the-root soon locks
everything up solid.  I haven't yet been able to document the precise
circumstances which lead to the problem.

-GAWollman

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