From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 24 16:40:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02098 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:40:41 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA02088 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 16:40:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id LAA15390; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:10:31 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id LAA69501; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:10:27 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981125111027.G67961@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 11:10:27 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: "Roman V. Palagin" , Karl Pielorz Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Random craches under heavy(?) disk activity References: <365A7F6A.3ED8A6D6@tdx.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Roman V. Palagin on Tue, Nov 24, 1998 at 12:54:35PM +0300 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, 24 November 1998 at 12:54:35 +0300, Roman V. Palagin wrote: > On Tue, 24 Nov 1998, Karl Pielorz wrote: > >> >> I thought this had been fixed a while ago? - my system (current as of >> Thu/19/11/98) doesn't show any symptoms (it's an SMP P-Pro 200), even when >> busy (14 drives across 5 controllers) - it certainly makes it past the usual >> 2am cron-job's, and backups etc. > > It was fixed by McKusick 17/11/98. But it's very interesting: I've > current as of 23/11/98 and kernel crashes without disabling 'realloc' > code, maximum uptime about 5-6 hours. Previous kernel was as of about > 20/11/98 and works without any problems 8-) It's looks like something > changed in src/sys tree. To be fair, Kirk wasn't 100% sure it would fix the problem. He sent me a fix (I was the first to report the problem), and it hasn't occurred since. It doesn't mean it's completely fixed, nor that your problem is the same. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message