Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 06:10:28 GMT From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: kern/67919: imagemagicks convert image to movie conversion kills 5.2.1 machine in vnode_pager_putpages Message-ID: <200406140610.i5E6AS6b090838@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR kern/67919; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Cc: Subject: Re: kern/67919: imagemagicks convert image to movie conversion kills 5.2.1 machine in vnode_pager_putpages Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2004 16:00:35 +1000 I would like to point to this email on the -stable list: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2004-March/006493.html From irc: <tjr> well, i have a vague idea <tjr> perhaps the application has mmap()'d in a sparse file <tjr> dirtied so many pages that there isn't space on disk for them <tjr> then the syncer has gone to flush the dirty pages out to disk.. <tjr> you could confirm whether or not that's the case fairly easily <tjr> create a sparse file that would be too big to fit on disk if it was non-sparse, mmap it in, dirty all the pages -- Edwin Groothuis | Personal website: http://www.mavetju.org edwin@mavetju.org | Weblog: http://weblog.barnet.com.au/edwin/
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