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Date:      Mon, 07 Jan 2002 12:26:30 -0800
From:      Michael Smith <msmith@freebsd.org>
To:        Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
Cc:        Dan Moschuk <dan@freebsd.org>, stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hang in md driver 
Message-ID:  <200201072026.g07KQUX01267@mass.dis.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 07 Jan 2002 20:22:36 %2B0100." <99902.1010431356@critter.freebsd.dk> 

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This doesn't seem to address the problem; md(4) shouldn't hang when it 
runs out of memory.

> >From md(4):
> 
>      malloc   Backing store is allocated using malloc(9).  Only one malloc-
>               bucket is used, which means that all md devices with malloc
>               backing must share the malloc-per-bucket-quota.  The exact size
>               of this quota varies, in particular with the amount of RAM in
>               the system.  The exact value can be determined with vmstat(8).
> 
> 
> In message <20020107141157.A1759@spirit.jaded.net>, Dan Moschuk writes:
> >
> >I can reproduce a hang in the md driver reliably.  
> >
> >Setup:
> >
> >dd if=/dev/zero of=image bs=32k count=8k
> >vnconfig -s labels -c vn0 image
> >diskabel -r -w vn0 auto
> >newfs vn0c
> >
> >dd if=image of=/dev/md0 bs=32k count=8k
> >mount /dev/md0c /mnt
> >
> >This works as expected.
> >
> >If I run bonnie against /mnt with a 64M filesize, everything is fine.
> >However, once I up that size to 128M it will hang half way through.
> >
> >Using an mfs partition instead yields no problems.  
> >
> >I've tested this against a 4.3 (512M ram) and a 4.4 (1.5GB ram) boxes
> >respectively and both are affected.  top says the bonnie process is in the
> >"MD sec" state.
> >
> >Cheers,
> >-Dan
> >
> 
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