From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 16:36:13 2004 Return-Path: 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 D23A016A4CE; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:36:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mailout1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de (mailout1.informatik.tu-muenchen.de [131.159.0.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A54843D55; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 16:36:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from langd@informatik.tu-muenchen.de) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 18:36:11 +0200 From: Daniel Lang To: John Baldwin Message-ID: <20040709163611.GA53906@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> References: <20040707182018.GA45659@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> <200407081310.37603.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <200407081715.19073.jhb@FreeBSD.org> <20040709095229.GA51569@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040709095229.GA51569@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de> X-Geek: GCS/CC d-- s: a- C++$ UBS++++$ P+++$ L- E-(---) W+++(--) N++ o K w--- O? M? V? PS+(++) PE--(+) Y+ PGP+ t++ 5+++ X R+(-) tv+ b+ DI++ D++ G++ e+++ h---(-) r+++ y+ User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at informatik.tu-muenchen.de cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org cc: rwatson@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Witness breakage X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 16:36:14 -0000 Hi again, Daniel Lang wrote on Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:52:29AM +0200: [..] > > that part. Now, can someone _please_ test it who has been having problems? > [..] > > Yes, thank you. I will test it today. I have the machine doing > thorough hardware diagnosis since yesterday and all night, so I could > not test your patch right away. The hardware tests did all succeed with no errors. I applied your patch and the machine behaves much better now. For example, before the patch it did panic during simple things as kernel-compile, or copying large directory trees (both in single-user mode). With the patch I could successfully perform such tasks. I am confident, that this patch solved a great deal of problems. I will boot the machine now into multiuser and see if it is still stable under regular load. Since you said the problems could have been triggered with the recent PREEMPTION changes, I am not sure if all my problems are solved, since IIRC the problems started with a kernel before this change. It became definitly worse after that, though. So again, many thanks so far. I keep you posted. Cheers, Daniel -- IRCnet: Mr-Spock Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 18532 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/