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From: Thomas David Rivers <ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com>
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To: michaelh@cet.co.jp, ponds!ponds!rivers
Subject: Re: More info on the daily panics...
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> 
> I think you're on the right track.
> 
> Continue looking at the initialization code of the inode allocation
> code and also start looking at deallocation.
> /sys/ufs/ufs/ufs_inode.c:ufs_reclaim() and /sys/kern/vfs_subr.c:vclean().
> 
> It could also be a nasty race condition.

 Terry was thinking, I believe, that it's a problem in vfs_subr.c.
His latest post was a discussion of that possibility.

> 
> Also, please provide some stats on your system including the size of RAM,
> Size of Disk, %Free Disk Space, %Free Inodes, the number of fictitious
> cylinders, etc.

 I've provided that (in much detail) in a previous message.... including
the output of disklable, newfs -n, etc...  basically this is an 8-meg
machine with a 1.2gig IDE (although I've also seen the problem on
a SCSI machine, and J"org recently reported it on MFS.)

> 
> Regards,
> 
> 
> Mike Hancock

	- Thanks for the pointers! -
	  - Dave Rivers -