From owner-freebsd-current Sun Sep 13 01:24:32 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA02435 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 01:24:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from burka.carrier.kiev.ua (burka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA02427 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 01:24:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archer@grape.carrier.kiev.ua) Received: from kozlik.carrier.kiev.ua (kozlik.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.111]) by burka.carrier.kiev.ua (8.9.0/8.Who.Cares) with ESMTP id LAA18369; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:24:07 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by kozlik.carrier.kiev.ua (8.9.0/8.9.0/8.Who.Cares) with UUCP id LAA27981; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 11:22:05 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from archer@localhost) by grape.carrier.kiev.ua (8.9.1/8.8.8) id KAA05082; Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:58:27 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from archer) Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:58:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander Litvin Message-Id: <199809130758.KAA05082@grape.carrier.kiev.ua> To: Luoqi Chen Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates panic X-Newsgroups: grape.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199809111636.MAA20295@lor.watermarkgroup.com> Organization: Lucky Grape User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980818 ("Laura") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199809111636.MAA20295@lor.watermarkgroup.com> you wrote: >> Another crash in make -j3 world last night, but no panic or core dump >> this time. >> >> It's disturbing to me to see this this close to release. >> >> >> Ben >> >> "You have your mind on computers, it seems." >> LC> I'm also able to reproduce this panic quite reliably. I tracked it down LC> to the lost of a directory size increase. It may have something to do LC> with Bruce's ffs_update() change in July (ffs_inode.c, -r1.43->1.44): LC> many cases of the in-core update are no longer copied to the inode disk LC> buffer. Please try the attached patch that restores the old behavior, and LC> let me know if it helps. I was able to do a make -j8 buildworld myself, LC> successfully up to the point that perl5 failed me 8( LC> -lq Is it all about SMP? I mean, I successfully made a couple of worlds recently with various -j# -- no panic, no freeze. --- Maintainer's Motto: If we can't fix it, it ain't broke. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message