From owner-freebsd-bugs Sat Oct 25 00:20:02 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA19356 for bugs-outgoing; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:20:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA19341; Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:20:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats) Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:20:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199710250720.AAA19341@hub.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs Cc: From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) Subject: Re: kern/4844: VM lookup, endless loop in vm_map_lookup_entry() Reply-To: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk The following reply was made to PR kern/4844; it has been noted by GNATS. From: dima@best.net (Dima Ruban) To: dillon@best.net (Matt Dillon) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, dima@best.net, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/4844: VM lookup, endless loop in vm_map_lookup_entry() Date: Sat, 25 Oct 1997 00:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Matt Dillon writes: > : > :> Within a day of upgrading to 2.2.5, we have had to lockups. > :> We were able to escape into the debugger and panic the machines. > : > :Bizarre - this never showed up in any of your testing of the > :2.2.5-BETAs? That would seem to indicate that the bug entered at the > :very last minute. > : > : Jordan This bug was introduced somewhere in between September 19 and today. > Correct. However, I do not know how uptodate our kernel was prior > to the upgrade. It's reasonably recent. Dima should know. No other > machines have crashed so far, just those two (the two crashes in the > bug report are from two different machines), but I think it may only > be a matter of time. > > Apart from that, and a tcp crash which I'm not going to worry about > until the VM issue is resolved, 2.2.5 has been running nicely. > > -Matt > > Matthew Dillon Engineering, BEST Internet Communications, Inc. > > [always include a portion of the original email in any response!] > -- dima