Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 07:23:06 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com> Cc: Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, dwmalone@FreeBSD.org, El Vampiro <vampiro@rootshell.ru>, "Evgueni V. Gavrilov" <aquatique@rusunix.org>, Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/42277 Message-ID: <47420.1047968586@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:41:27 PST." <200303172341.h2HNfRFL014201@beastie.mckusick.com>
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In message <200303172341.h2HNfRFL014201@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick wr ites: >I have not had any success in reproducing the problem on my machines, >but I am mostly running on 5.X these days. Evgueni V. Gavrilov (copied >on this message) seems to be able to produce the problem about once a >day on his machines. He is also very willing to help out by testing >patches and sending back reports. So, if you are able to provide him >with a patch to collect the information, I am sure that he will run it >and send back the results. He and I have already gone through all the >128-byte structures reported by `vmstat -m' looking for ones with a >short at 64-bytes and found no viable candidates. So, I was feeling >rather stuck. But it sounds like you have a viable way of tracking >this down. So you're saying this is only a -stable problem ? Have you tried aggressively setting the word @64 to random values ? With a little luck this will make some code somewhere unhappy and you might get a hint who's responsible ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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