From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 10 13:11:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mclean.mail.mindspring.net (mclean.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF3FC37B400 for ; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 13:11:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from user-1120ab2.dsl.mindspring.com ([66.32.41.98] helo=europa2) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16kAb4-0006hq-00; Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:11:14 -0500 Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.20020310160933.00dae0a8@imatowns.com> X-Sender: ggombert@imatowns.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.6 (32) Date: Sun, 10 Mar 2002 16:09:33 -0500 To: Jeff Roberson , current@freebsd.org From: Glenn Gombert Subject: Re: Call for UMA (allocator) testers. In-Reply-To: <20020307183325.K92683-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have the UMA patch installed on two systems here, a 500Mhz K7 system and dual PIII SMP box, both of which have WITNESS and INVARIANTS configured in the kernel. I will run them for the next few days, and report anything that looks unusual in operation :) GG. >I'd like people to test with WITNESS and INVARIANTS, although with these >options on it is somewhat slower than the original kernel. With these >disabled it is on par. If you have a SMP machine you will get witness >warnings if you run low on memory. There is no real problem except that >witness doesn't understand that the condition is safe. > >If you do test this patch, please send me an email so I know how many >people are using this. If you get a lock order violation other than >"acquring duplicate lock of same type" please let me know. If you get a >panic, please give me a stack trace (tr in ddb) and the output of "call >uma_print_stats" in the debugger if that is possible. > >This has been debugged and tested over several months so it is quite >stable for me. Hopefully it will be stable for you too. :-) > >The patch and new files are available at: >http://www.chesapeake.net/~jroberson/uma.tar > >Untar into src/sys and apply the patch. After you rerun config you should >be ready to compile. > >Thanks, >Jeff > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > Glenn Gombert ggombert@imatowns.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message