Date: Mon, 6 Jul 1998 12:41:05 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: committers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CVS commit privs Message-ID: <199807061941.MAA23984@apollo.backplane.com>
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Hey guys! This is great stuff... I'm starting to get into it though, for the moment, I am concentrating on throwing out another rev or two of my diablo news system. I have a question: I am life-testing FreeBSD-current on an SMP box with softupdates turned on. This will eventually become our new NNTP machine (it isn't a production machine) and is currently running pre-production Diablo news feeder / reader code. i.e. it's exercising 58GB worth of striped filesystems heavily, running a real-world application. I am doing this expecting to get crashes and, indeed, I have gotten a a couple. I believe they were all softupdates panics but until the last one I didn't have the serial console / debugger hooked up. I got it hooked up and got a crash dump. So far I have one really excellent -g compiled crash dump showing a 'softdep_deallocate_dependencies: dangling deps' panic via getblk->getnewbuf->softdep_deallocate_dependancies->panic. (and, btw, fsck worked as expected, finding only bitmap inconsistancies and a single partially truncated inode. I've never seen such a clean fsck after a hard crash on a news box in my life!) Should I use send-pr to post detailed information on the crash dumps I've gotten out of these panics, or should I email Julian directly? Also, is there a partition on FreeFall available for making crash dumps available to other FreeBSD committers/developers? My home directory partition is only 400MB or so. The crash dump is 256MB :-) I figure Julian and/or Kirk could use a gdb'able crash dump to track the softupdates panics down better rather then have to depend on send-pr descriptions. -Matt :Welcome, new committer, to the FreeBSD development team! : :The following docs are provided to orient you on doing CVS operations :on the FreeBSD central repository machine. A basic familiarity with :CVS is already assumed, though CVS reference information, tutorials, :and FAQs can also be found at: : http://www.cyclic.com/cyclic-pages/books.html : :Table of contents: :------------------ :1.0 Administrative details To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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