From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 9 21:28:11 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA16233 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:28:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ConSys.COM ([209.141.107.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA16227 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rcarter@psf.Pinyon.ORG) Received: from psf.Pinyon.ORG (ip-17-071.prc.primenet.com [207.218.17.71]) by ConSys.COM (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA06135; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:28:04 -0700 (MST) Received: from psf.Pinyon.ORG (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by psf.Pinyon.ORG (8.8.8/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA03559; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 21:26:20 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <199806100426.VAA03559@psf.Pinyon.ORG> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Julian Elischer cc: "Russell L. Carter" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn hosed In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jun 1998 20:16:49 MST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 09 Jun 1998 21:26:20 -0700 From: "Russell L. Carter" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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