From owner-freebsd-current Wed Aug 26 07:49:55 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA11203 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 07:49:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA11198 for ; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 07:49:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA10432; Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:48:47 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199808261448.JAA10432@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Serious bug in vm_page.h in current In-Reply-To: <199808261441.KAA05337@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> from Garrett Wollman at "Aug 26, 98 10:41:33 am" To: wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 09:48:47 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@iquest.net, wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu, dfr@nlsystems.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@iquest.net X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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