From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 7 00:43:50 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA09029 for current-outgoing; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 00:43:50 -0800 Received: from ref.tfs.com (ref.tfs.com [140.145.254.251]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA09023 for ; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 00:43:49 -0800 Received: (from phk@localhost) by ref.tfs.com (8.6.8/8.6.6) id AAA25109; Tue, 7 Mar 1995 00:43:22 -0800 From: Poul-Henning Kamp Message-Id: <199503070843.AAA25109@ref.tfs.com> Subject: Re: more ETXTBSY bugs To: pete@pelican.com (Pete Carah) Date: Tue, 7 Mar 1995 00:43:22 -0800 (PST) Cc: current@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from "Pete Carah" at Mar 7, 95 00:34:00 am Content-Type: text Content-Length: 807 Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > In article <9503062157.AA19959@cs.weber.edu> Terry writes: > ..... > >I'd like to see the people seeing the thrashing problems add about 16M > >of swap without doing any extra apllications and see what happens. If This is the same as the "chatter bug" and it is well understood now. don't try this, and if you do: after some time you will see on "vmstat -m" that you have a LOT of vnodes, more than sysctl(kern.maxvnodes), and you will also loose diskspace... : # Hello is a one-line static-linked program. while true do cp hello a10 ./a10 rm -f a10 done Now we're just waiting for David to get well and fix it... Poul-Henning -- Poul-Henning Kamp TRW Financial Systems, Inc. I am Pentium Of Borg. Division is Futile. You WILL be approximated.