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Date: Wed,  6 Dec 2000 09:54:33 -0500
To: Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Subject: Re: VMware hanging
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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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