From owner-freebsd-current Wed May 20 01:41:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA19419 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 May 1998 01:41:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA19406 for ; Wed, 20 May 1998 01:41:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA14286; Wed, 20 May 1998 01:34:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd014284; Wed May 20 08:34:36 1998 Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 01:34:33 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: Karl Denninger cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Explosion update on Softupdates - it is NOT CCD related In-Reply-To: <19980519172915.55147@mcs.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is more interesting what panic are you seeing on the spool? On Tue, 19 May 1998, Karl Denninger wrote: > > The earlier panic I reported (including traceback) is not related to ccd. > > I just got another one on the Diablo machine. This is EXTREMELY > reproducable in that environment; I can kill the system within 10 minutes, > and this time when it came back up the filesystem had serious damage. > > Note that if I turn off softupdates on the SPOOL disk (leaving it on for all > other drives, except root) it DOES NOT panic. > > This has to be related to the I/O pattern in that application. > > -- > -- > Karl Denninger (karl@MCS.Net)| MCSNet - Serving Chicagoland and Wisconsin > http://www.mcs.net/ | T1's from $600 monthly / All Lines K56Flex/DOV > | NEW! Corporate ISDN Prices dropped by up to 50%! > Voice: [+1 312 803-MCS1 x219]| EXCLUSIVE NEW FEATURE ON ALL PERSONAL ACCOUNTS > Fax: [+1 312 803-4929] | *SPAMBLOCK* Technology now included at no cost > > 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