From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 6 05:55:38 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1E2E16A4CE; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:55:38 +0000 (GMT) Received: from pimout3-ext.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net [207.115.63.102]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC16243D2F; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 05:55:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from [192.168.1.103] (adsl-67-124-50-148.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net [67.124.50.148])j265tW5S003350; Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:55:33 -0500 Message-ID: <422A9B53.8080504@elischer.org> Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 21:55:31 -0800 From: Julian Elischer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050214 X-Accept-Language: en, hu MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremie Le Hen References: <200503021343.j22DhpQ3075008@repoman.freebsd.org> <200503020915.28512.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <4226446B.7020406@freebsd.org> <61ac46c154aa515a692308440dd1141d@FreeBSD.org> <422710DD.1070203@freebsd.org> <422719E0.10703@samsco.org> <42279B6D.1000005@freebsd.org> <20050304182629.GA39457@VARK.MIT.EDU> <4228AB27.3020204@samsco.org> <4228B504.7000302@elischer.org> <20050305154248.GF15329@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> In-Reply-To: <20050305154248.GF15329@obiwan.tataz.chchile.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: Scott Long cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org cc: John Baldwin cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: David Xu cc: David Schultz Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_sig.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 05:55:39 -0000 Jeremie Le Hen wrote: >>for a start I'd like to add a sysctl to turn off swapping out kernel >>stacks.. >>then if someone had a reproducible or atleast 'common" problem, ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ >>we could suggest turning it off to see >>if it fixes the problem.. that would be a big smoking gun.. > > > If I understand correctly, the problem with swapping is that it's > highly non-deterministic. Therefore having kthread swapping disabled > would not tell us whether the bug is really avoided or if we are just > fortunate enough to not trigger it. > > Regards,