Date: Sun, 13 Sep 1998 10:58:27 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net> To: Luoqi Chen <luoqi@watermarkgroup.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: soft updates panic Message-ID: <199809130758.KAA05082@grape.carrier.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <199809111636.MAA20295@lor.watermarkgroup.com>
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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.
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