From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 24 18:32:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA13369 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:32:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from troutmask.apl.washington.edu (troutmask.apl.washington.edu [128.95.76.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA13318 for ; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:31:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu) Received: (from sgk@localhost) by troutmask.apl.washington.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id SAA00571; Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:38:33 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sgk) From: Steve Kargl Message-Id: <199811250238.SAA00571@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Random craches under heavy(?) disk activity In-Reply-To: <19981125111027.G67961@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Nov 25, 1998 11:10:27 am" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 24 Nov 1998 18:38:33 -0800 (PST) Cc: romanp@wuppy.rcs.ru, kpielorz@tdx.co.uk, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL43 (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 According to Greg Lehey: > > 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. > Are you running your system with softupdates on the filesystems? If I understand ffs_alloc.c, then ffs_dorealloc() calls ffs_blkfree() at only one location. And, the call to ffs_blkfree() is conditional on not running softupdates. -- Steve finger kargl@troutmask.apl.washington.edu http://troutmask.apl.washington.edu/~clesceri/kargl.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message