Date: Sun, 13 Jun 1999 22:02:13 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> Cc: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MMAP() in STABLE/CURRENT ... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9906132201400.49155-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <199906130459.VAA65612@apollo.backplane.com>
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On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> :Anyway, I have a simple program that mmap()s a 1Gig file into memory,
> :madvise()s it that it will be doing random access. If I quit and restart
> :this program a couple of times (yes, it close()s and munmap()s the segment),
> :my system will hard lock. By dropping into DDB once I found that it was
> :stuck in 'vm_somethingorother_choosepage'. Does this ring any bells? Should
> :I try to stop my system again?
> :
> :--
> :David Cross | email: crossd@cs.rpi.edu
>
> David, can you email this program to me please?
>
> Also, which FreeBSD release does this occur on?
>
> I've got about 6 mmap-related bugs on my plate at the moment. 3 of them
> have been identified ( that is, I know why they deadlock the machine ),
> but none have been fixed yet.
Matt, I'll volunteer myself as a tester for this code under 3.2-STABLE,
when you have it ready...
Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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