From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue May 9 5:55:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from burka.carrier.kiev.ua (burka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86AC37B662 for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 05:55:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from netch@lucky.net) Received: from netch@localhost by burka.carrier.kiev.ua id PVL87683 for freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 9 May 2000 15:55:44 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from netch) Date: Tue, 9 May 2000 15:55:44 +0300 From: Valentin Nechayev To: FreeBSD-alpha mailing list Subject: Re: buildworlds dying on -current / alpha Message-ID: <20000509155544.A83860@lucky.net> Reply-To: netch@lucky.net References: <20000504234613.A526@jedi.wbnet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20000504234613.A526@jedi.wbnet>; from wkb@chello.nl on Thu, May 04, 2000 at 11:46:13PM +0200 X-42: On Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Thu, May 04, 2000 at 23:46:13, wkb wrote about "buildworlds dying on -current / alpha": We had the same problem after occasional switching to 5.0 from 4.0. Userland symptoms' view was quite similar to reported in my kern/10226 PR (which was variant of kern/8416) - root vnode locking. We had to separate buildworld process to successive phases. AlphaPC 164SX 533MHz, 128MB RAM, NCR 875. > I'm experiencing system lockups during a buildworld of -current on > my PWS600, 128Mb, Qlogic 1040 SCSI. > > Symptoms: build continues for hours (script foo; make buildworld creates > a 4-6Mbyte logfile) and then the build stops. The system is only responsive > in the sense that switching console screens works, the shell gives you > another prompt on hitting return. But e.g. starting 'ls' just echos the > command and then sits there. I can get to the kdebugger using ctl/alt/esc. > > Just built a kernel with -g and will retry the buildworld. In the meantime > comments are welcome. Is this only me or have more people seen it? -- NVA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message