Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 21:26:20 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: "Russell L. Carter" <rcarter@pinyon.org>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn hosed Message-ID: <199806100426.VAA03559@psf.Pinyon.ORG> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 20:16:49 MST." <Pine.BSF.3.95.980609201623.26901F-100000@current1.whistle.com>
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> We have some patches for soft-updates coming on-line today.. Well. You know to keep it short I didn't add the details that I had completely reconfigured by adding a dedicated swap partition, so that I have had no crashes in the last 72hrs. That's normal. Of course. So there might be lingering problems with soft-updates but they must be minor, fundamentally. The point is: goddam really cool stuff! Great work Julian, Kirk (of course) and whoever! I love listening to my drives now... Cheers, Russell > > > > On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Russell L. Carter wrote: > > > I have been crashing my -current system regularly and it appears > > (the system wedges, no response to keyboard) to be caused by > > swapping to a vn device. So I'll second Dyson's recommendation > > to not use vn with -current. On the plus side, soft-updates > > has survived maybe twenty crashes over the last few weeks, > > and all but once has come up smoothly. The crashes occur with > > a lot of disk activity (usually a buildworld, and couple of > > other compiles going, emacs, exmh, netscape hammering > > squid) so that is nice test. Therefore I withdraw my > > recent aspersions about soft-updates :). > > > > Russell > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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