From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Oct 15 14:19: 2 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FA5E14D5D for ; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 14:18:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA96435; Fri, 15 Oct 1999 22:21:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 22:21:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Wilko Bulte Cc: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: hanging buildworld? In-Reply-To: <199910151741.TAA63503@yedi.iaf.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > The process sitting there is the one in 'objtrm' , cpp at pid 10569. > The machine itself keeps running just fine. > > Has anybody else ever seen this? This is sort-of repeatable on my NoName. I think other people have reported similar problems. There must be a place in the VM/VFS where a counter is being updated without using the atomic macros. I'll talk to Matt about it at the conference. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message