From owner-freebsd-stable Thu May 6 19:25:12 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from isua4.iastate.edu (isua4.iastate.edu [129.186.1.204]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF29A150EF for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 19:25:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from graphix@iastate.edu) Received: from localhost (graphix@localhost) by isua4.iastate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA29046 for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 21:25:06 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199905070225.VAA29046@isua4.iastate.edu> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Reply-To: kent@iastate.edu Subject: SMP and files Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 21:25:06 CDT From: Kent Vander Velden Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been having several problems with -STABLE lately but generally the problems were the same ones occuring again. Tonight a new one showed up. This machine is searching over about 10k files totaling 5G using grep and egrep from within scripts. When the scripts get to a point where the same file is being accesses the scripts lock up. The grep and egrep processes are stuck in the D state. Also, if I try to run ls on the file the ls locks up. After this has happened the machine seems to have trouble syncing the disks and simply does not reboot nicely. The machine is a dual p133. There are only ultra wide scsi drives on the system (except a jaz drive) controlled by an Adaptec 2940UW controller. All partitions except / have softupdates enabled. This problem seems to be related to updating from the March kernel to a more recent one. --- Kent Vander Velden kent@iastate.edu To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message