From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Oct 23 9:26:35 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DF2F37B401 for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:26:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cvg-65-27-235-120.cinci.rr.com (cvg-65-27-235-120.cinci.rr.com [65.27.235.120]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2DF7E43E3B for ; Wed, 23 Oct 2002 09:26:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cokane@cvg-65-27-235-120.cinci.rr.com) Received: (qmail 61164 invoked by uid 1001); 23 Oct 2002 16:30:58 -0000 Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 12:30:58 -0400 From: Coleman Kane To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Cc: Eugene Mitrofanov , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vinum + 4.7 release = page fault Message-ID: <20021023163058.GA61012@freebsd.org> References: <20021023102927.GD57512@wantadilla.lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20021023102927.GD57512@wantadilla.lemis.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recently installed 4.7-R on a machine that runs vinum and have had no trouble with my system. I also have run vinum start multiple times and all it seems to do is creade another md device (md?: malloc disk). I have not experienced the page fault or kernel crash issue you are describing. I am using a vinum mirror over two 4-GB drives. On Wed, Oct 23, 2002 at 07:59:27PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Wednesday, 23 October 2002 at 14:16:48 +0400, Eugene Mitrofanov wrote: > > Hi > > > > Double 'vinum start' command causes the system crash. > > That's not the same thing as a page fault. > > > How to repeat it quickly. > > Install 4.7-release. Creat one RAID-1 vinum disk. Put 'start_vinum="YES"' > > into /etc/rc.conf. > > The system boots and works fine with a fs_located_on_vinum, but if you run > > 'vinum start' and then do 'ls /fs_located_on_vinum' you get page fault. > > There are some known issues with running start twice. I thought it > had been fixed in 4.7. But if you have a system crash, you should > submit a stack back trace. If you have a page fault, don't worry. > Several per second are quite acceptable: > > r b w avm fre flt re pi po fr sr s0 m0 in sy cs us sy id > 1 0 0 27704 2636 262 0 3 2 5 8 26 0 131 4294966892 48 34 11 55 > 1 0 0 28784 1552 276 0 0 0 0 0 3 0 108 577 17 78 22 0 > 1 0 0 29908 832 284 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 104 388 17 85 15 0 > > See the column 'flt'? That's the number of page faults per second on > this machine. It's high, but not serious. > > Greg > -- > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message -- Coleman Kane coleman@domainit.com System Administrator WK: 513.351.4222 DomainIt!, Inc. Cell: 513.885.0666 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message