Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:48:47 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@iquest.net> To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Serious bug in vm_page.h in current Message-ID: <199808261448.JAA10432@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <199808261441.KAA05337@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Aug 26, 98 10:41:33 am"
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Garrett Wollman said: > > >> newsswitch has been up for more than nine hours now, which is longer > >> than it had been lasting. I'll give it a full day before proclaiming > >> success, though. > > > Yep, I did provide some info to Matt about this a few days ago, and I > > suspect that we would let me know if there were NEW problems. If this > > fixes it, it is indeed amazing how subtile some parts of the system > > are. > > It didn't fix it, but the machine did stay up for fourteen hours, > which is a lot longer than it has lasted in recent history. (Usually > it deadlocks in less than six hours.) > It is possible that the additional wakeups just jarred the system back awake. I suspect that there is still a window condition somewhere. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@iquest.net | it makes one look stupid jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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