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Date:      Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:42:22 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Maxim Konovalov <maxim@macomnet.ru>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ok, are all the panics fixed now?
Message-ID:  <20030827233934.O48169@news1.macomnet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20030827133126.D4269@odysseus.silby.com>
References:  <5.2.0.9.0.20030826212312.07923ea0@209.112.4.2>    <5.2.0.9.0.20030826212312.07923ea0@209.112.4.2> <20030827122327.GA17847@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> <20030827133126.D4269@odysseus.silby.com>

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On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, 13:34-0500, Mike Silbersack wrote:

>
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Mike Silbersack wrote:
>
> > Ah, that's a good idea!
> >
> > I'll try setting hw.physmem down to 12M or so and see if that causes the
> > panics to occur over here.
> >
> > Mike "Silby" Silbersack
>
> Ok, I booted with hw.physmem="16M", and a buildworld paniced with
> "free/cache page dirty".  (I was taking a nap at the time the buildworld
> crashed, we'll talk about that soon.)
>
> (Are you guys running with INVARIANTS?)
>
> So, I think we'll just include a warning with 4.9:
>
> WARNING!
>
> Do not attempt to stress a FreeBSD 4.9 machine if you:

or "Upgrade your FreeBSD to RedHat".

> a) Will be swapping whatsoever
> or
> b) Will be taking a nap while it is running.
>
> Doing either or both of these may result in panics.

It's simple: we need to backout all these untested MFCs.

-- 
Maxim Konovalov, maxim@macomnet.ru, maxim@FreeBSD.org



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