From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Jun 25 21:20:08 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA02445 for smp-outgoing; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:20:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Kitten.mcs.com (Kitten.mcs.com [192.160.127.90]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA02437 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 21:20:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Mercury.mcs.net (fredriks@Mercury.mcs.net [192.160.127.80]) by Kitten.mcs.com (8.8.5/8.8.2) with ESMTP id XAA10653 for ; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:19:58 -0500 (CDT) Received: (from fredriks@localhost) by Mercury.mcs.net (8.8.5/8.8.2) id XAA17826 for smp@freebsd.org.; Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:19:58 -0500 (CDT) From: Lars Fredriksen Message-Id: <199706260419.XAA17826@Mercury.mcs.net> Subject: Silo overflows with SMP kernel To: smp@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 23:19:58 -0500 (CDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-smp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, Just a quick comment that I have noticed. This might have something to do with the granularity of locking that we are currently running with(ie giant lock), but I have seen a fair amount of silo overflows while running the SMP kernel. I have a 64Kbs ppp link that from time to time have a medium load on it.(ie big ftp transfers) Is this to be expected until the locking gets more granular or is this related to something else? Lars -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- Lars Fredriksen fredriks@mcs.com (home) lars@fredriks-2.pr.mcs.net (home-home)