Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2009 20:10:29 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Pete French <petefrench@ticketswitch.com> Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( Message-ID: <200902180110.n1I1AaPL031693@pyroxene.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901292234430.30840@fledge.watson.org> References: <E1LL6dg-0007CN-DI@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0901292234430.30840@fledge.watson.org>
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At 05:38 PM 1/29/2009, Robert Watson wrote:
>On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Pete French wrote:
>
>>I have a number of HP 1U servers, all of which were running 7.0
>>perfectly happily. I have been testing 7.1 in it's various
>>incarnations for the last couple of months on our test server and
>>it has performed perfectly.
>>
>>So the last two days I have been round upgrading all our servers,
>>knowing that I had run the system stably on identical hardware for some time.
>
>For those following this other than Pete, who I've been in private
>correspondence with: it seems that he is running into two different
>deadlocks in the routing code. One of them (at least) is triggered
>by a lock order problem relating to the processing of ICMP redirects
>-- uncommon in most configurations, but quite a few on his network,
>which triggers quickly under load. Kip Macy has corrected at least
>one (both?) problems in head, and plans to MFC the fixes in the near
>future. We'll follow up further once the fixes are merged, and if
>any further problems transpire.
Hi Robert,
Do you have any other details about these issues ? Were the
fixes ever MFC'd
---Mike
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