Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 08:33:31 -0800 From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Giving up on three buffers... Message-ID: <3E5A495B.2080504@myrealbox.com> In-Reply-To: <b3dflt$2ah9$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw> References: <b3dflt$2ah9$1@FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw>
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David Wolfskill wrote: >>Date: Mon, 24 Feb 2003 07:39:08 -0800 >>From: walt <wa1ter@myrealbox.com> > > >>After this morning's cvsup I now get a 'syncing disks...giving up >>on three buffers' error message when shutting down the system and >>the filesystem doesn't get properly dismounted. > > >>For the last four days I could never shut the system down cleanly >>because of the nVidia driver problem causing a kernel panic >>when X got shut down, so I'm not sure if this problem really >>just started this morning or somethime in the past four days. > > >>Anyone else seeing this just today? > > > My build machine runs headless, so there may well be a salient > difference there, but today's -CURRENT build & reboot went just fine... I discovered that I was still running SCHED_ULE from yesterday and switching back to SCHED_4BSD eliminated the problem. I've actually been wondering why the system was so sluggish and now I know why ;-) Compiling a kernel was enough to drag the machine practically to uselessness, but now it's back to it's old self. The new scheduler still needs a bit of tweaking, methinks. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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