Date: Sun, 24 Oct 1999 14:33:34 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Deadlock in nbufkv Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910241431410.89558-100000@beppo.feral.com> In-Reply-To: <99Oct25.071534est.40323@border.alcanet.com.au>
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You know, I noticed this also yesterday, but with a current as of yesterday. It wasn't a complete hang. Eventually it recovered and went into sbwait. The filesystem in question was a 32k/8k fs. I remade the filesystem into 8k/1k, and things went better, but also then went onto other things (the disk was an experimental disk also). On Mon, 25 Oct 1999, Peter Jeremy wrote: > I've recently upgraded a system from 3.2-RELEASE to -CURRENT as of > 30-Sept (just before the signal changes). I now find that when > I try to do a CVS checkout, the system hangs, with cvs in `nbufkv'. > > The CVSROOT is on a filesystem with standard 8K/1K blocks. The > target FS is 32k/4k. Both FS are running softupdates. This worked > without problem under 3.2. The kernel config files are basically > the same (modulo config(8) changes). FWIW, it has 'maxusers 5' > and no other options over-riding default kernel memory sizes. > > I notice that Matt Dillon found his FS stress program also hung in > nbufkv, but that was with 64k blocks. Other than that, I can't > find any reference to nbufkv here, in the PR list or in the sys > commitlogs. > > Does anyone have any ideas? Should I just go back to 8K/1K blocks? > > Peter > -- > Peter Jeremy (VK2PJ) peter.jeremy@alcatel.com.au > Alcatel Australia Limited > 41 Mandible St Phone: +61 2 9690 5019 > ALEXANDRIA NSW 2015 Fax: +61 2 9690 5982 > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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