From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 6 08:54:24 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id IAA11143 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:54:24 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA11137 for ; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:54:23 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id IAA22187; Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:50:59 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503061650.IAA22187@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: more ETXTBSY bugs To: bde@zeta.org.au (Bruce Evans) Date: Mon, 6 Mar 1995 08:50:59 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199503061512.BAA25411@godzilla.zeta.org.au> from "Bruce Evans" at Mar 7, 95 01:12:24 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 537 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > All this may be old behaviour. There is certainly some new behaviour: > The ETXTBUSY bit didn't go away while I was running `make' in the > background for 10-20 minutes. Perhaps the vnode and associated buffers > didn't go away either, and clog up the caches. This is indeed my theory too, the "chatter bug" is due to the fact that vnodes get recycled so fast that the namei-cache thrashses. -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.