From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 3 08:44:55 2003 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 BA57537B401; Sat, 3 May 2003 08:44:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com (ms-smtp-01.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD2643FD7; Sat, 3 May 2003 08:44:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) Received: from mail3.nc.rr.com (fe3 [24.93.67.50])h43Fe6hA027243; Sat, 3 May 2003 11:40:06 -0400 (EDT) Received: from creme-brulee.marcuscom.com ([66.57.17.158]) by mail3.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Sat, 3 May 2003 11:42:03 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.4] (shumai.marcuscom.com [192.168.1.4]) h43Fffaa059461; Sat, 3 May 2003 11:41:41 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from marcus@marcuscom.com) From: Joe Marcus Clarke To: Don Lewis In-Reply-To: <200305030942.h439grM7017158@gw.catspoiler.org> References: <200305030942.h439grM7017158@gw.catspoiler.org> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-nYZrQQ4bYAtT+DFaY9gw" Organization: MarcusCom, Inc. Message-Id: <1051976687.52870.5.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.3.2 (Preview Release) Date: 03 May 2003 11:44:47 -0400 X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-38.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_01,EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,IN_REP_TO,PGP_SIGNATURE_2, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REFERENCES,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) cc: smoberly@karamazov.org cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: More on the blkfree panic 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: Sat, 03 May 2003 15:44:56 -0000 --=-nYZrQQ4bYAtT+DFaY9gw Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 05:42, Don Lewis wrote: > On 2 May, I wrote: > > On 2 May, Scott A. Moberly wrote: > >> On Fri, May 02, 2003 at 01:43:34PM -0700, Don Lewis wrote: > >>> I haven't seen it on my 4/26 machine, though I haven't done anything > >>> disc intensive (other than the daily cron jobs) since then. The repor= ts > >>> of this problem started showing up on 4/27, so I went hunting for > >>> commits during the likely window using cvs diff. There were a number= of > >>> vm locking changes made during that time, including some changes to > >>> vfs_bio.c. That's about as close as anything came to touching the > >>> filesystem code. > >>=20 > >> Just to give a definate start point: > >>=20 > >> /Makefile.inc1/1.349/Fri May 2 18:26:15 2003//D2003.04.26.05.00.00 > >>=20 > >> works fine. > >=20 > > Mine is somewhat newer than that, about 2003.04.27.02.00.00 UTC. I jus= t > > ran a buildworld and unpacked ports.tgz and didn't run into any > > problems. I'll try stepping forward about 12 hours ... >=20 > Interesting ... I'm having problems reproducing this problem. >=20 > The first report of this bug landed in my inbox at about 15:12 UTC on > April 27. Someone else who reported the bug claimed to have cvsup'ed at > about 10:00 UTC on that day. >=20 > I just did > cvs -R update -Pd -D'4/27/2003 14:00:00 UTC' > make buildworld > make buildkernel > make installkernel > and rebooted. >=20 > I haven't managed to trigger the problem with a simultaneous buildworld > and untaring ports.tgz. I even suspected that this problem might be > triggered by free memory pressure so I added > hw.physmem=3D"128M" > to /boot/loader.conf and rebooted. I've pushed the machine heavily into > paging, but it still seems to be stable, but painfully sluggish. I was also able to reproduce this, though not as reliably as my localhost NFS mount trick, by doing a make extract in x11/XFree86-4-libraries. This was on a lightly loaded P4 with 1 GB of RAM and UFS1 file systems. Joe --=20 PGP Key : http://www.marcuscom.com/pgp.asc --=-nYZrQQ4bYAtT+DFaY9gw Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQA+s+Pvb2iPiv4Uz4cRAmnUAJd48mYKDViCFSHuxo2yB8bGuYl6AJ9jk6Q1 HdHsCg7Ip5DWINS7teuJ+w== =s9L8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-nYZrQQ4bYAtT+DFaY9gw--