Date: Mon, 13 Nov 1995 12:59:24 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: jgreco@brasil.moneng.mei.com (Joe Greco) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Odd crash after inode depletion.. Message-ID: <199511131959.MAA17295@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199511120740.BAA26010@brasil.moneng.mei.com> from "Joe Greco" at Nov 12, 95 01:40:28 am
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> I've noticed an infrequent but consistent tendency for the system to panic > with "free vnode isn't" some time after hitting inode exhaustion. With a > sample size of only a few instances, all I can establish is that I have NOT > seen a "free vnode isn't" panic without first having run out of inodes. > > (system is running 1026-SNAP, by the way, which may be significant - I never > saw this panic under 2.0.5R, but then again, I can't recall ever having run > out of inodes under 2.0.5R) This is endemic to the move from regualr to circular queues. I don't know why, but going back to the old queues fixes it. Probably, this is just a symptom of the larger problem of global allocation of vnodes. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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