From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jul 12 8:40:23 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B3BB37B407 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:40:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (panzer.kdm.org [216.160.178.169]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31C8D43E77 for ; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 08:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: from panzer.kdm.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g6CFe5Ki094135; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:40:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken@panzer.kdm.org) Received: (from ken@localhost) by panzer.kdm.org (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g6CFe5au094134; Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:40:05 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from ken) Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 09:40:05 -0600 From: "Kenneth D. Merry" To: Alex Zepeda Cc: Don Lewis , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What to do with witness verbiage (is this new?)? Message-ID: <20020712094004.A94102@panzer.kdm.org> References: <20020710180409.GA2555@blarf.homeip.net> <200207102036.g6AKakwr008407@gw.catspoiler.org> <20020712153339.GA414@blarf.homeip.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20020712153339.GA414@blarf.homeip.net>; from zipzippy@sonic.net on Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:33:39AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Jul 12, 2002 at 08:33:39 -0700, Alex Zepeda wrote: > On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 01:36:46PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > > > It'll drop into ddb every time you get a witness error and you'll have > > to tell ddb to continue. This could be a might annoying if you are > > getting errors ever ten seconds ... > > I'm seeing this: > > ../../../vm/uma_core.c:1332: could sleep with "kernel linker" locked from ../../../kern/kern_linker.c:1797 > > very early on (before rc.sysctl is read -- okay I'm still using the old rc > scripts). > > Is there any way to set debug.witness_ddb=1 from the loader? > > This is entirely repeatable (just boot up the machine), also seems to > happen a few times at random while the system is running. I figure if I > could get it to panic in the repeatable case... You can set debug.witness_ddb from the loader. It'll get propagated to the sysctl once you boot. Ken -- Kenneth Merry ken@kdm.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message