Date: Thu, 6 Jan 2005 11:04:54 -0500 From: David Gilbert <dgilbert@dclg.ca> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Deadlock with 32GB swap-backed md Message-ID: <16861.24998.55471.171529@canoe.dclg.ca> In-Reply-To: <20050106025042.GA26670@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050106025042.GA26670@xor.obsecurity.org>
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>>>>> "Kris" == Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> writes: Kris> In my quest for ever-more-insane things to do to panic package Kris> build machines, I switched them over to use a 32GB swap Kris> partition as a swap-backed md, in the hopes of improving build Kris> times by cutting back on disk accesses. This seemed to work (I Kris> wasn't sure you could use this much on i386, but the system let Kris> me configure as much as 32GB), except two of them have locked Kris> up. ps shows Not that I've looked at this, but isn't MFS constrained by 32 bit pointers in i386? Dave. -- ============================================================================ |David Gilbert, Independent Contractor. | Two things can only be | |Mail: dave@daveg.ca | equal if and only if they | |http://daveg.ca | are precisely opposite. | =========================================================GLO================
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