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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2001 21:45:42 -0500
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
Cc:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_condvar.c kern_synch.c src/sys/sys proc.h
Message-ID:  <20010821214542.M81307@elvis.mu.org>
In-Reply-To: <xzppu9p7zn3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>; from des@ofug.org on Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 01:37:52AM %2B0200
References:  <200108211842.f7LIgkp03186@freefall.freebsd.org> <20010821134601.J81307@elvis.mu.org> <xzppu9p1b29.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzpy9od11uv.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <xzpu1z111mi.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> <200108212254.f7LMsFQ68740@earth.backplane.com> <xzppu9p7zn3.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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* Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> [010821 21:13] wrote:
> Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> writes:
> > :8% averaged over the machine's uptime, in fact:
> > :
> > :root@des /sys/kern# uptime
> > :12:31AM  up 5 days, 10:27, 7 users, load averages: 1.94, 1.57, 1.69
> > :root@des /sys/kern# ps -axlp 5
> > :  UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
> > :    0     5     0 142  20  0     0    0 syncer DL    ??  629:49.14  (syncer)
> > [...]
> >     The syncer is not typically fragile.  The only thing I can think of
> >     that could cause something like this to happen is if 'rushjob'
> >     (aka speedup_syncer()) is being called continuously.
> 
> After some discussion with jhb on IRC, I rebooted in single-user mode
> and ran 'fsck -y' on all file systems.  It found several unreferenced
> directories and files on / and /home, and a handful of incorrect link
> counts.  Background fsck is now off, and I'm somewhat confident my
> interrupt latency problems will not resurface, though it's too early
> to tell.

It probably would have been extremely useful to have the fsck output
mailed to Kirk.

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein [alfred@freebsd.org]
Ok, who wrote this damn function called '??'?
And why do my programs keep crashing in it?

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