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To: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber)
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Subject: Re: SMPng stability
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Christian Weisgerber writes:
 > Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> wrote:
 > 
 > > John Baldwin's most recent commits (the ones leading up to WITNESS
 > > working) seem to have improved the stability SMPng on alpha.  I'd urge
 > > anybody who is having -current stability problems on alpha to update
 > > your sources and try a new kernel.
 > > 
 > > Heck, this might even help the PC164 situation..
 > 
 > Well...  It didn't get stuck while probing for SCSI devices.  It
 > actually booted into single user mode.  Just to do something from

Hurray!!!

 > there I started an fsck of a scratch partition, wedging the box
 > within five seconds or so.

Do you have:

options         DDB
options         BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER
options         MUTEX_DEBUG
options         WITNESS
options         WITNESS_DDB

In your config file?   If not, can you try a kernel with those
options?

Thanks,

Drew


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