From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Nov 16 11:50:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9150437B479 for ; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:50:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id eAGJnjB64703; Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:49:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <14868.3077.993148.862591@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2000 11:50:23 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Andrew Gallatin Subject: Re: SMPng stability Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.org, (Christian Weisgerber) Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On 16-Nov-00 Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > Christian Weisgerber writes: > > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > > John Baldwin's most recent commits (the ones leading up to WITNESS > > > working) seem to have improved the stability SMPng on alpha. I'd urge > > > anybody who is having -current stability problems on alpha to update > > > your sources and try a new kernel. > > > > > > Heck, this might even help the PC164 situation.. > > > > Well... It didn't get stuck while probing for SCSI devices. It > > actually booted into single user mode. Just to do something from > > Hurray!!! > > > there I started an fsck of a scratch partition, wedging the box > > within five seconds or so. > > Do you have: > > options DDB > options BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER > options MUTEX_DEBUG > options WITNESS > options WITNESS_DDB > > In your config file? If not, can you try a kernel with those > options? Hmm, I would add in 'INVARIANTS' and 'INVARIANT_SUPPORT' but wouldn't put in WITNESS_DDB yet. :) > Thanks, > > Drew -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message