From owner-freebsd-current Sat Sep 16 11:34:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from pike.osd.bsdi.com (pike.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.222]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E9D137B42C for ; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:34:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jhb@localhost) by pike.osd.bsdi.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA21961; Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:32:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jhb) From: John Baldwin Message-Id: <200009161832.LAA21961@pike.osd.bsdi.com> Subject: Re: PRE_SMPNG snap In-Reply-To: from Wesley Morgan at "Sep 16, 2000 02:30:33 pm" To: Wesley Morgan Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 11:32:58 -0700 (PDT) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (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 Wesley Morgan wrote: > On Sat, 16 Sep 2000, John Baldwin wrote: > > > Err, AFAIK, the only instability atm is that under heavy load some ahc > > controllers seem to hang (or possibly the ahc driver is getting out of > > sorts and hanging.) However, the problem is not so bad that you can't > > build world in at most 2 boots, and it also seems to only manifest > > itself on SMP machines AFAIK. The only other bugs at this point are > > in cosmetic statistics, and in catching the alpha arch up to the x86 > > arch. If you have other stability problems we'd appreciate some bug > > reports. :-P > > Are there any filesystem-hosing issues with the "instability"? I'll try > anything if my FS is in no danger :) Well, in all cases that I've seen, it was during a buildworld, so if I lost a file in /usr/obj I didn't really care, nor did I notice. I do know that fsck -p finished w/o any errors or need for manual intervention when I rebooted the machines. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message