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Date:      Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:50:59 -0800 (PST)
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@ref.tfs.com>
To:        bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans)
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: more ETXTBSY bugs
Message-ID:  <199503061650.IAA22187@ref.tfs.com>
In-Reply-To: <199503061512.BAA25411@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 7, 95 01:12:24 am

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> All this may be old behaviour.  There is certainly some new behaviour:
> The ETXTBUSY bit didn't go away while I was running `make' in the
> background for 10-20 minutes.  Perhaps the vnode and associated buffers
> didn't go away either, and clog up the caches.

This is indeed my theory too, the "chatter bug" is due to the fact that
vnodes get recycled so fast that the namei-cache thrashses.

-- 
Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@login.dknet.dk>
TRW Financial Systems, Inc.
I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.



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