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Date:      Wed, 19 Dec 2007 12:06:59 -0500
From:      Mark Fullmer <maf@eng.oar.net>
To:        Bruce Evans <brde@optusnet.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds
Message-ID:  <814DB7A9-E64F-4BCA-A502-AB5A6E0297D3@eng.oar.net>
In-Reply-To: <20071220011626.U928@besplex.bde.org>
References:  <D50B5BA8-5A80-4370-8F20-6B3A531C2E9B@eng.oar.net> <20071217102433.GQ25053@tnn.dglawrence.com> <CD187AD1-8712-418F-9F49-FA3407BA1AC7@eng.oar.net> <20071220011626.U928@besplex.bde.org>

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On Dec 19, 2007, at 9:54 AM, Bruce Evans wrote:

> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007, Mark Fullmer wrote:
>
>> A little progress.
>>
>> I have a machine with a KTR enabled kernel running.
>>
>> Another machine is running David's ffs_vfsops.c's patch.
>>
>> I left two other machines (GENERIC kernels) running the packet  
>> loss test
>> overnight.  At ~ 32480 seconds of uptime the problem starts.  This  
>> is really
>
> Try it with "find / -type f >/dev/null" to duplicate the problem  
> almost
> instantly.

I was able to verify last night that (cd /; tar -cpf -) > all.tar would
trigger the problem.  I'm working getting a test running with
David's ffs_sync() workaround now, adding a few counters there should
get this narrowed down a little more.

Thanks for the other info on timer resolution, I overlooked
clock_gettime().

--
mark



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