Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:54:33 -0500 From: Barry Lustig <barry@lustig.com> To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: VMware hanging Message-ID: <20001206145433.16471.qmail@devious.lustig.com> In-Reply-To: <200012060651.eB66p0c91421@earth.backplane.com> References: <20001118231633.A85206@evilcode.com> <200011190635.eAJ6ZRS94516@grumpy.dyndns.org> <20001118230305.A83848@evilcode.com> <20001119151138.A7434@bsdvm.jtjang.idv.tw> <200011192202.eAJM2cG03593@billy-club.village.org> <200011192239.eAJMdDa90818@earth.backplane.com> <200011192308.eAJN8q714360@whizzo.transsys.com> <200011192324.eAJNO1891133@earth.backplane.com> <20001205232913.15317.qmail@devious.lustig.com> <200012060019.eB60JgJ88193@earth.backplane.com> <20001206023936.15587.qmail@devious.lustig.com> <200012060324.eB63OvG90385@earth.backplane.com> <20001206051514.15819.qmail@devious.lustig.com> <200012060651.eB66p0c91421@earth.backplane.com>
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On Tue, 5 Dec 2000, Matt Dillon wrote:
> Ok, your system appears to be locked up in the buffer cache code.
> Something (probably vmware) created over 1800 dirty buffers. The
> high water mark is less then 500.
>
> ...
>
> Index: kern/sys_generic.c
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/kern/sys_generic.c,v
> retrieving revision 1.55.2.8
> diff -u -r1.55.2.8 sys_generic.c
> --- kern/sys_generic.c 2000/11/26 02:30:04 1.55.2.8
> +++ kern/sys_generic.c 2000/12/06 06:49:33
> @@ -494,6 +494,7 @@
> }
> endif
> cnt = auio.uio_resid;
> + bwillwrite();
> if ((error = fo_write(fp, &auio, fp->f_cred, 0, p))) {
> if (auio.uio_resid != cnt && (error == ERESTART ||
> error == EINTR || error == EWOULDBLOCK))
That wasn't it. It is still locking up. Is there something that I should
look for in the vmware kernel modules?
barry
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