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Date:      Tue, 18 Mar 2003 07:23:06 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Kirk McKusick <mckusick@beastie.mckusick.com>
Cc:        Jeff Roberson <jroberson@chesapeake.net>, dwmalone@FreeBSD.org, El Vampiro <vampiro@rootshell.ru>, "Evgueni V. Gavrilov" <aquatique@rusunix.org>, Mike Makonnen <mtm@identd.net>, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-src@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: kern/42277 
Message-ID:  <47420.1047968586@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:41:27 PST." <200303172341.h2HNfRFL014201@beastie.mckusick.com> 

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In message <200303172341.h2HNfRFL014201@beastie.mckusick.com>, Kirk McKusick wr
ites:

>I have not had any success in reproducing the problem on my machines,
>but I am mostly running on 5.X these days. Evgueni V. Gavrilov (copied
>on this message) seems to be able to produce the problem about once a
>day on his machines. He is also very willing to help out by testing
>patches and sending back reports. So, if you are able to provide him
>with a patch to collect the information, I am sure that he will run it
>and send back the results. He and I have already gone through all the
>128-byte structures reported by `vmstat -m' looking for ones with a
>short at 64-bytes and found no viable candidates. So, I was feeling 
>rather stuck. But it sounds like you have a viable way of tracking
>this down.

So you're saying this is only a -stable problem ?

Have you tried aggressively setting the word @64 to random values ?
With a little luck this will make some code somewhere unhappy and
you might get a hint who's responsible ?

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