From owner-freebsd-current Thu May 9 23:07:16 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA14213 for current-outgoing; Thu, 9 May 1996 23:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id XAA14195 for ; Thu, 9 May 1996 23:07:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id PAA07933; Fri, 10 May 1996 15:42:48 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199605100612.PAA07933@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Libc is broken! To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 15:42:47 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, current@freebsd.org, wollman@lcs.mit.edu In-Reply-To: <199605091312.JAA08894@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from "Bill Paul" at May 9, 96 09:12:56 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Bill Paul stands accused of saying: > > Well, I've had this problem with both of the last SNAPs, which > means the problem must have been around for at least a couple > months. When did the bcopy() optimizations go in? Yonks ago by the look of it. Unhappily enough, I can't get the fault to manifest at the moment, so needless to say I'm very cross. > I've tried snooping with tcpdump to look for clues: as far as I can > tell, everything just stops for now reason. Again, 2.1.0 can handle > both of these cases just fine. The only lockup I was able to actually observe had the offending process sleeping on 'netio'. > -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[