From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jun 9 20:22:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA07605 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:22:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA07595 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:22:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id UAA01336; Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:17:01 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd001331; Wed Jun 10 03:16:52 1998 Date: Tue, 9 Jun 1998 20:16:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Russell L. Carter" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vn hosed In-Reply-To: <199806091602.JAA03669@ConSys.COM> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We have some patches for soft-updates coming on-line today.. On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Russell L. Carter wrote: > I have been crashing my -current system regularly and it appears > (the system wedges, no response to keyboard) to be caused by > swapping to a vn device. So I'll second Dyson's recommendation > to not use vn with -current. On the plus side, soft-updates > has survived maybe twenty crashes over the last few weeks, > and all but once has come up smoothly. The crashes occur with > a lot of disk activity (usually a buildworld, and couple of > other compiles going, emacs, exmh, netscape hammering > squid) so that is nice test. Therefore I withdraw my > recent aspersions about soft-updates :). > > Russell > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message