From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Dec 15 09:37:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA16823 for stable-outgoing; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:37:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id JAA16818; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 09:37:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00814; Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:37:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199712151737.MAA00814@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Stability Of FreeBSD 2.2.5 CD-ROM Release In-Reply-To: <3479A106.6B6E@natsoft.com.au> from Craig Wilson at "Nov 24, 97 03:45:10 pm" To: craig@natsoft.com.au (Craig Wilson) Date: Mon, 15 Dec 1997 12:37:38 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@freebsd.org, stable@freebsd.org From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Craig Wilson said: > John S. Dyson wrote: > > If you are using FreeBSD in a pseudo-mission critical application, I strongly > > suggest applying the vm_page patches that have been included into the > > RELENG_2_2 code. Also, there is an odd "delay" problem happening, and > > frankly, there is no upper level reason in the VFS or VM code that I can see. > > John, thank you for your reply. > > Does 2.2.2 suffer from the vm_page problem, or the delay problem? > The vm_page problem does exist in 2.2.2, and 2.2.5. 2.2.6 will not have it. I can't remember about the delay problem. Thanks for pinging me on it through. > > Could you please tell me what files are required to fix the vm_page > problem? > /sys/vm/vm_page.c (from 2.2.5 to -stable) I'll try to post this to various users who are asking about problems in 2.2.5. -- John dyson@freebsd.org jdyson@nc.com