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From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
Subject: Re: kern/8732: nfs mounts with 'intr' can cause system hang
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The following reply was made to PR kern/8732; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To: "David G. Andersen" <danderse@cs.utah.edu>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/8732: nfs mounts with 'intr' can cause system hang
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 16:51:10 -0500 (EST)

 On Thu, 17 Dec 1998, David G. Andersen wrote:
 
 > 
 > Okay.. hrm.  Want to try a different one?
 > 
 > Index: vfs_subr.c
 > ===================================================================
 > RCS file: /n/marker/usr/lsrc/FreeBSD/CVS/src/sys/kern/vfs_subr.c,v
 
 ...
 
 > (Instead of just checking for EINTR, it returns on any error)
 > 
 > I managed to replicate the crash you had with my first patch, but it
 > took a lot more pounding for some reason.  I haven't managed to crash
 > with this one yet, but who knows.
 > 
 >   -Dave
 > 
 
 someone should publish a mailbox over NFS stress test using pine.
 
 *cough* sorry, i'll check this out later tonight.
 
 i think it hits when pine is deleting mail and a signal arrives because
 the mailbox changed in size.
 
 does this propogate the signal back to the process?
 
 Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com
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