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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: systems hangs, reboots and panics after large find
To: davidg@root.com
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 21:31:11 +0200 (MET DST)
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In-Reply-To: <199606221059.DAA05164@root.com> from David Greenman at "Jun 22, 96 03:59:46 am"
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David Greenman wrote:
> >I'm experiencing strange hangs with a heavily used 2.0.5 machine.
> >The symptom is dat during a run of /etc/daily, the system gets
> >slower and slower and then sometimes reboots, sometimes hangs.
> >We also saw panics, (free vnode isn't).
> >I lately did a large find on a 2.0 machine and it rebooted. Because
> >/etc/daily also contains a few large finds, I am suspecting the
> >FS layer. Is anything known about a problem in there causing such
> >behaviour?
> 
>    There were some windows in the vnode allocation that could cause undesired
> behavior. These were fixed a few days ago.
> 

Any idea to which files? I can't find it in my cvs-commit mailbox.
And it seems the archive on freefall in /usr/local/mail/archive is no longer
used. A pointer to a copy of the commit message would be ok..

-Guido