From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 27 08:14:04 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D60A16A420 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:14:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atanas@asd.aplus.net) Received: from pro20.abac.com (pro20.abac.com [66.226.64.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 030B643D53 for ; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:14:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atanas@asd.aplus.net) Received: from [64.203.49.217] (user-10cmcep.cable.mindspring.com [64.203.49.217]) (authenticated bits=0) by pro20.abac.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k0R8DtGM003737; Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:13:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from atanas@asd.aplus.net) Message-ID: <43D9D649.9030003@asd.aplus.net> Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 00:14:01 -0800 From: Atanas User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <200601202003.30336.nike_d@cytexbg.com> <43D79F09.7090505@cytexbg.com> <200601261040.49015.nike_d@cytexbg.com> <200601261707.56664.nike_d@cytexbg.com> <20060126161728.GA18234@xor.obsecurity.org> <43D95D2C.8010101@rogers.com> <20060126234422.GA26532@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060126234609.GA26648@xor.obsecurity.org> In-Reply-To: <20060126234609.GA26648@xor.obsecurity.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 1.47 (SPF_SOFTFAIL) Cc: Mike Jakubik , Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: diskio / filesystem related deadlock on SMP 6.0-STABLE machine. X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 08:14:04 -0000 Kris Kennaway said the following on 1/26/2006 3:46 PM: > On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:44:22PM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote: >> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 06:37:16PM -0500, Mike Jakubik wrote: >>> Kris Kennaway wrote: >>>> On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 05:07:56PM +0200, Niki Denev wrote: >>>> >>>>> On Thursday 26 January 2006 10:40, Niki Denev wrote: >>>>> >>>>> [...] >>>>> >>>>> After i disabled option QUOTA in both my default kernel config >>>>> and the one i compiled with the debugging options i was unable >>>>> to reproduce the deadlock again. (i hope it stays that way :) ) >>>>> This, together with the report in my previous post probably point >>>>> that the problem is in the QUOTA support. >>>>> >>>> Actually, I think this is known. >>>> >>>> Kris >>>> >>> Well thats good to know, i was planning on upgrading a production box >>> from 5 to 6, its SMP and uses QUOTA. How did 6 get released when QUOTA >>> was known to cause deadlocks? > > FYI, you can probably work around this by setting debug.mpsafevfs=0. > Of course, you'll lose the filesystem performance benefits. > > Kris I'd like to confirm that setting debug.mpsafevfs=0 (along with debug.mpsafevm=0 and debug.mpsafenet=0) doesn't help either. I ran into the same problem about a month ago on 2 production boxes running 6-STABLE (SMP with QUOTA enabled) and the only way I found to stop them crashing was switching back to 5.4. I hope this will get fixed in 6.1. Regards, Atanas