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Date:      Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:40:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>
To:        Jon Noack <noackjr@alumni.rice.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Deadlocks with recent SMP current
Message-ID:  <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1040814193948.30898B-100000@fledge.watson.org>
In-Reply-To: <411E9399.3050200@alumni.rice.edu>

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On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Jon Noack wrote:

> Here's a data point:  My dual Pentium3 system has been up for 20+ hours
> with this patch. Previously, it wouldn't survive for more than an hour
> or so (regardless of load). 

Unfortunately, I'm running a box with the same patch and did get a hang.
The patch appears to correct some known stability issues associated with
threaded processes, but the build I was using to trigger the hang doesn't
use threads, so...

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert@fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research




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