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Subject: Re: Odd quirks after updating to 5.2...
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Robin P. Blanchard wrote:
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org 
>>[mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Doug White
>>Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 7:50 PM
>>To: Peter Losher
>>Cc: current@freebsd.org
>>Subject: Re: Odd quirks after updating to 5.2...
>>
>>
>>On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Peter Losher wrote:
>>
>>
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>>>Ever since I updated one of our other boxes from 5.1 to 5.2, I have 
>>>been having issues with the periodic processes not finishing up 
>>>properly, which after a week or so fills up all the 
>>
>>permitted forked 
>>
>>>processes, and then causes FreeBSD to deprive itself of resources.
>>
>>They weren't getting blocked in getblk or inode, were they? 
>>Thats one thing that we're still chasing.
>>
> 
> 
> I'd be glad to offer ssh access to a 2650 that consistently exhibits this
> behaviour in hopes to get -CURRENT primed for the masses. Any takers ?
> 

I just committed several fixes to the aac driver that might help your
problem here.  Without a posted dmesg, it's hard to say, though, so
please let me know if it does.

Scott