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From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>
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Subject: Re: Problems with the ATA-driver
In-Reply-To: <199912212159.NAA03050@apollo.backplane.com> from Matthew Dillon at "Dec 21, 1999 01:59:03 pm"
To: dillon@apollo.backplane.com (Matthew Dillon)
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Cc: peter@netplex.com.au (Peter Wemm),
	havoc@Cal30B054.student.utwente.nl (Theo van Klaveren),
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It seems Matthew Dillon wrote:
> 
>     The thread 'vm_page_remove panic' that Tamiji Homma initiated may be
>     related.  She is getting a panic in the buffer cache subsystem while 
>     using the new ATA driver with softupdates + NFS exported filesystems.
> 
>     I do not know if it is related, but I can say that I know of no other
>     vm_page_remove panic related to VM or NFS specifically, and softupdates
>     is known to stress-test IDE disks.

I dont think its related, I run multiple pure ATA disk systems here all
using softupdates and heavy loading, but no NFS, and I've never seen
that panic, that makes NFS a fine candidate for problems...

-Søren


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