From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Aug 22 08:11:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA10260 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 08:11:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA10254; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 08:11:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA01902; Sat, 22 Aug 1998 08:07:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdVj1897; Sat Aug 22 15:07:14 1998 Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1998 08:07:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "John S. Dyson" cc: Terry Lambert , sos@FreeBSD.ORG, croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates and smp crash In-Reply-To: <199808220523.AAA19739@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, John S. Dyson wrote: > I have to chime in here -- some of the "fixes" are work-arounds, and > there are still underlying VM problems. It might be "good enough" > for 3.0, but I would suggest preparing for some rework to find the > root cause for the problem. > We all agree john, but we have not got a suitable set of people who really understand that code yet... several people are doing "voyages of discovery" but we do not yet have a "slot-in replacement" for you :-) julian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message