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Date:      Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:41:11 +0100
From:      Josef Karthauser <joe@pavilion.net>
To:        Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>
Cc:        Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>, Akinori -Aki- MUSHA <knu@idaemons.org>, andrews@technologist.com, mckusick@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.ORG, cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/contrib/softupdates softdep.h ffs_softdep.c
Message-ID:  <20000628014111.F19558@pavilion.net>
In-Reply-To: <200006280041.RAA03048@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>; from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu on Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:41:28PM -0700
References:  <20000628012956.B19558@pavilion.net> <200006280041.RAA03048@troutmask.apl.washington.edu>

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On Tue, Jun 27, 2000 at 05:41:28PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> 
> Could be a softupdates and ccd interaction?

That's what we thought at the time - since then we've moved the
spool over to a DPT smart cache V controller (using Simon Shapiro's
patches to 3.4).
 
> > More recently a friend of mine was having crashes doing a make
> > world under 4.0 with SMP and softupdate.  Switching softupdates
> > off caused the crashes to go away.
> 
> Was the FS nearly full or exceeding 100% full?  SU is/was known
> to have problems if you were running under these conditions.
> 

Not to my knowledge - I'm guessing that it was relatively empty.

> 
> > Is anyone else here using softupdates in an SMP environment?
> > 
> 
> Of course ;-)  I've been using SU since Kirk allowed it to be
> included in FreeBSD.  I haven't had a SU crash for a long, long,
> time, and I've never completely lose a FS.

Us neither which is why it's so worrying.

Joe


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