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Date:      Thu, 7 Nov 2002 18:07:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Ray Kohler <ataraxia@cox.net>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG, qumqats@outel.org
Subject:   Re: dnet causes Hard Lock on SMP kernel? ( was 'Why is my -current system Hard Locking?' )
Message-ID:  <200211072307.gA7N78Si017125@arkadia.nv.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <161351601.1036680423@[192.168.1.20]>

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> From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov  7 18:00:10 2002
> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2002 14:47:03 -0800
> From: "Joel M. Baldwin" <qumqats@outel.org>
> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: dnet causes Hard Lock on SMP kernel? ( was 'Why is my -current
>  system Hard Locking?' )
>
>
> The BIG thing is that I now have a sure fire way of forcing
> a Hard Lock.  Every time I run the distributed.net client
> 'dnet' the system hard locks.  BUT ONLY ON A SMP KERNEL!
> I have a non SMP kernel running and things so far
> seem stable.  Running the system with only 1 CPU is slow,
> so it'll take a while for me to be sure.
>
> So the questions now are.
> 1.) What is dnet doing that is Hard Locking the system?
> 2.) Is the dnet problem the same as what has been causing
>     my Hard Locks all along?

Just a guess, but maybe your system locks up every time the
CPU usage gets very high under SMP? That's one thing dnetc
is guaranteed to do. Do other CPU-intensive operations do
it? (Maybe you said earlier, but I haven't been following
this thread.)

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