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Date:      Thu, 15 Apr 1999 07:58:25 -0400
From:      Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>
To:        Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        dillon@apollo.backplane.com
Subject:   Re: vm problem?
Message-ID:  <4.1.19990415075456.0422aa30@granite.sentex.ca>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9904151327160.10403-100000@backup.zippynet.i ol.net.au>

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At 11:37 PM 4/14/99 , Andy Farkas wrote:
>
>Is anyone else seeing this?
>
>On a 3.1-STABLE (Apr 14 1999) system, the following causes a vm lockup:
>
>$ find / -type f -exec grep zztop "{}" \; &
>$ find / -type f -exec grep zztop "{}" \; &
>
>(ie. the same find command twice put in background... as a normal user)

Unfortunately yes.  There was a thread about it a few weeks ago.  I get the
impression that a lot needs to be changed in order to fix this and that the
problem is not simple.  Hopefully it will be sooner than later :-( See the
thread Simple DOS against 3.x locks box solid.

	---Mike



	---Mike
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