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Date:      Sat, 30 Sep 2006 17:38:43 -0500
From:      Craig Boston <craig@feniz.gank.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Paul Allen <pallen@ugcs.caltech.edu>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: CALL FOR TESTERS! [Re: 6.2 SHOWSTOPPER - em completely unusable on 6.2]
Message-ID:  <20060930223843.GB32120@nowhere>
In-Reply-To: <20060930183906.GA76658@xor.obsecurity.org>
References:  <002201c6e290$45ece980$b3db87d4@multiplay.co.uk> <451BD89F.8080203@samsco.org> <451C1F6D.2020302@mail.uni-mainz.de> <7.0.1.0.0.20060928152807.17bbe448@sentex.net> <451C271A.9040904@samsco.org> <20060930011904.GA62626@nowhere> <20060930013439.GB62626@nowhere> <20060930014242.GB42433@xor.obsecurity.org> <20060930060535.GA3467@riyal.ugcs.caltech.edu> <20060930183906.GA76658@xor.obsecurity.org>

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On Sat, Sep 30, 2006 at 02:39:06PM -0400, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Which is odd since the hypothesis Scott was working on should have
> > > shown up clearly in the mutex trace, but did not.
> > 
> > But it is consistent with there being a beat-frequency problem with 
> > respect to the scheduler.  I think the number you really need is not
> > how long giant was held but how long was spent waiting for it.
> 
> It also seemed to show that nothing was really waiting for it (the
> cnt_* entries).

I can set up a serial console an poke around in DDB during my test case
if anyone thinks some useful information can be found.

Unfortunately I'm remote from the machine right now so I won't be able
to do that until Monday :/

Craig



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