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Date:      Mon, 10 May 1999 18:16:09 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Cliff Skolnick <cliff@steam.com>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, luoqi@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: vm_fault deadlock and PR 8416 (was Re: Strange reboot saga ) 
Message-ID:  <199905110116.SAA00175@implode.root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 10 May 1999 17:22:50 PDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905101717560.453-100000@lazlo.internal.steam.com> 

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>After removing the patch from my system, poof - deadlock.
>
>I did the ctl-printscrean thing, and everything looked ok.  There were a
>bunch of locks, shared, but I could not make much sense beyond the "ps" and
>doing a trace which did not give me much info since I could not figure out
>how to trace a specific process.  :(
>
>Anyways this is a production email and dns system, so I can't futz with it
>too much.  I've added the patch in and expect my system will run again until
>*I* take it down.  Usually it locks up within 24 hours without the patch,
>and it has run 4+ days with no lockup with the patch.  After 4 days I took
>the system down to remote the patch and add debugging to my kernel, monday
>rolls around and poof - locked up.
>
>I would urge someone who has more of a clue about the locking issues to take
>a look at this.

   There are two patches mentioned in PR 8416...which one are you using?

-DG

David Greenman
Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org
Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com


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