From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 22 17:59:44 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70A1716A41F for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:59:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3764B43D46 for ; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:59:44 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from kris@obsecurity.org) Received: from obsecurity.dyndns.org (CPE0050040655c8-CM00111ae02aac.cpe.net.cable.rogers.com [70.30.70.180]) by elvis.mu.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1920B1A3C20; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Received: by obsecurity.dyndns.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A55151237; Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:59:42 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 13:59:42 -0400 From: Kris Kennaway To: Peter Holm Message-ID: <20050922175942.GA2822@xor.obsecurity.org> References: <20050922094518.GA41762@peter.osted.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="AhhlLboLdkugWU4S" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050922094518.GA41762@peter.osted.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inodes and soft update X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 17:59:44 -0000 --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:45:18AM +0200, Peter Holm wrote: > While trying to improve one of the tests from the kernel stress suite, > I have run into a strange problem. The program tries to use 90% of the > available inodes on a file system. This works fine where "soft update" > is disabled. However, when enabled I seem to run out of some resource > and the file system winds up corrupted (/tmp: unmount pending error: > blocks 0 files -83). I've seen that warning on dozens of machines including some running 5.3, but it seems to be harmless. > http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/log/inodes.html It's great to have a test that provokes it though. Kris --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFDMvEOWry0BWjoQKURAj5yAKC7soVt+91rgYEc12BLyaAJEwhzFgCWIwY7 np18oIrocDmDUJXLRGNqbg== =imZD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --AhhlLboLdkugWU4S--