Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 20:05:47 +0100 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Big problems with 7.1 locking up :-( Message-ID: <20090225190546.GA13283@phenom.cordula.ws> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251051230.64866@fledge.watson.org> References: <E1LcGMf-000Om9-Ey@dilbert.ticketswitch.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0902251051230.64866@fledge.watson.org>
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On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 11:04:29AM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > On Wed, 25 Feb 2009, Pete French wrote: > > >> FYI, I'm currently awaiting testing results from Pete on the MFC of a > >> number of routing table locking fixes, and once that's merged (hopefully > >> tomorrow?) I'll start on the patches in the above PR. I've taken a > >> crash-course in routing table locking in the last few days... :-) > > > > Just to let you know that I have had zero crashes since I out the > > patch live on sunday. Of course thats only three days, but it does > > look very much like it has fixed it. I am also running with the > > other routing table patch too.. At this point no news is good > > news, as it is just sitting there ticking away nicely to itself. I > > will roll it out to a few more machines over the next few days. > > But looking good so far, I would encourage other people to try the > > ptches if they are having problems... > > Thanks -- I've gone ahead and merged the patch to 7.x (r189026) so > that I can look at the PR and get that in-progress. Since the code > affected by the PR is no longer in 8.x, I'll merge directly to 7.x, > and probably fairly quickly since you've had it in production for a > while. Great! I hope this patch will also fix the mysterious hangs I've experienced on Soekris routers since nov/dec 2008. Will try in a few days and report back any further hangs. > Robert N M Watson > Computer Laboratory > University of Cambridge Regards, -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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