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Subject: RE: witness_get: witness exhausted?
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John Baldwin writes:
 > 
 > Unfortunately dead witnesses may still be stuck in the lock order
 > hierarchy and I haven't figured out yet how to properly handle the
 > case of free'ing a witness structure from the tree while preserving
 > the correct lock orders.  You can try

Ah, I think I see.  Thanks for the info.

 > http://www.freebsd.org/~jhb/patches/witness.patch  but I don't think
 > it will help with your specific case.

It would probably help a little, but not very much..

Thanks,

Drew


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