From owner-freebsd-current Sat Dec 28 22:50:17 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 94F0E37B405 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:50:16 -0800 (PST) Received: from w250.z064001178.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net (adsl-66.218.45.239.dslextreme.com [66.218.45.239]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 9799A43EA9 for ; Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:50:12 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jos@catnook.com) Received: (qmail 78716 invoked by uid 1000); 29 Dec 2002 06:50:28 -0000 Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2002 22:50:06 -0800 From: Jos Backus To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: spec_getpages I/O read failure on md0 Message-ID: <20021229065028.GC881@lizzy.catnook.com> Reply-To: jos@catnook.com Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20021228193431.GA13948@lizzy.catnook.com> <20021229152736.N39955-100000@gamplex.bde.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021229152736.N39955-100000@gamplex.bde.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:57:49PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > Errors caused by these bugs can be non-deterministic because the pages may > be loaded into memory other means. E.g., when exec off zip drives > was broken, exec would succeed after several attempts because each attempt > loaded another 8 i386 pages so that all pages were eventually in memory. Fwiw, that jibes with what I am seeing. After sticking in the extra printf so far I have not been able to reproduce the problem again. -- Jos Backus _/ _/_/_/ Sunnyvale, CA _/ _/ _/ _/ _/_/_/ _/ _/ _/ _/ jos at catnook.com _/_/ _/_/_/ require 'std/disclaimer' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message