Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 22:22:56 +0930 From: Matthew Thyer <thyerm@camtech.net.au> To: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: Brian Feldman <brianfeldman@hotmail.com>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SoftUpdates stable?? Message-ID: <355C3AA8.6BE438E@camtech.net.au> References: <Pine.OSF.3.90.980515104503.4457A-100000@spectrum.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------EBAA7E041C4B15BDB689AC83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I dont know how you managed it but I'm running the latest softupdates and I dont have the filesystem mounted async,noatime (as I normally would have) and I didn't get through a make world from a system at ctm src-cur.3366 going to 3369 (only got 17.46% through based on size of output) - a non SU kernel got through it no worries. I do my makes with no -j but with -O and -pipe. My machine is a UP P166 (no mmx) with a kernel conf attached. Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On 14 May 1998, Brian Feldman wrote: > > > I don't know about this, it seems not to be stable to me. After a > > 1-week uptime, at the end which I decided to rebuild a kernel with > > softupdates, it seemed to work fine. After a little while, I was in X, > > with xlock running, and left my station alone. Later I tried to telnet to > > it to no avail; when I got home, I found it completely locked, "wedged" to > > use recent terminology, having been up maybe 15 or so hours at most. Now, > > These are similar symptoms I was seeing until last night (until I fixed > (a)). Make sure > > a) The filesystem you're running softupdates on isnt mounted 'async' > > b) You're using the most recent version of the softupdates code from > http://www.freebsd.org/~julian > > Since correcting the first problem, I've finished two 'make world -j8's > without a hitch. I'll run some more stress-tests over the weekend and see > if I can't get it to die, but so far I'm quite happy with what I see. > > Thanks, Julian! > > Kris > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message -- /=====================================================================\ |Work: Matthew.Thyer@dsto.defence.gov.au | Home: thyerm@camtech.net.au| \=====================================================================/ "If it is true that our Universe has a zero net value for all conserved quantities, then it may simply be a fluctuation of the vacuum of some larger space in which our Universe is imbedded. In answer to the question of why it happened, I offer the modest proposal that our Universe is simply one of those things which happen from time to time." E. P. Tryon from "Nature" Vol.246 Dec.14, 1973 --------------EBAA7E041C4B15BDB689AC83 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; name="MATTE" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline; filename="MATTE" # Machine with 32 Bit WD disks, ATAPI CD-ROM, SB16, NE2000 NIC # and ncr PCI SCSI. # NOTE: kernel at CTM 2722 is the last kernel before the Lite 2 merge! # $Id: MATTE,v 6.3 1998/05/13 ????? CDT matt Exp $ # based on $Id: LINT,v 1.429 1998/04/29 17:09:41 andreas Exp $ # machine "i386" ident "MATTE.3366" maxusers 20 options INCLUDE_CONFIG_FILE # Include this file in kernel config kernel root on wd0 cpu "I586_CPU" options "CPU_DISABLE_5X86_LSSER" # should not be used if you use memory mapped I/O device(s). options "CPU_FASTER_5X86_FPU" # COMPATIBILITY OPTIONS options "COMPAT_43" # Compatible with BSD 4.3 [KEEP THIS!] options USER_LDT # Let processes manipulate their local descriptor table (needed for WINE) options SYSVSHM # Enable SYSV style shared memory options SYSVSEM # Enable SYSV style semaphores options SYSVMSG # Enable SYSV style message queues options "MD5" # Include a MD5 routine in the kernel options "VM86" # Allow processes to switch to vm86 mode (needed for doscmd) # DEBUGGING OPTIONS options DDB # Enable the kernel debugger options UCONSOLE # Allow users to grab the console options USERCONFIG # boot -c editor options VISUAL_USERCONFIG # visual boot -c editor # NETWORKING OPTIONS options INET # Internet communications protocols # Network interfaces: pseudo-device ether # Generic Ethernet pseudo-device loop # Network loopback device pseudo-device tun 1 # Tunnel driver(user process ppp) # FILESYSTEM OPTIONS # The ones I have commented out will autoload when required options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem options NFS # Network Filesystem options "CD9660" # ISO 9660 Filesystem options MFS # Memory Filesystem options MSDOSFS # MSDOS Filesystem options PROCFS # Process Filesystem options NSWAPDEV=4 # Allow this many swap-devices #options DEVFS # Devices filesystem #options SLICE # Devfs based disk handling options SOFTUPDATES # (DONT USE FOR NOW - just dont enable it on the filesystems) controller pci0 controller ncr0 # My card set for termination and using IRQ 11 # SCSI DEVICE CONFIGURATION controller scbus0 at ncr0 # Base SCSI code disk sd0 at scbus0 target 0 disk sd1 at scbus0 target 1 disk sd2 at scbus0 target 2 disk sd3 at scbus0 target 3 disk sd4 at scbus0 target 4 disk sd5 at scbus0 target 5 disk sd6 at scbus0 target 6 # MISCELLANEOUS DEVICES AND OPTIONS pseudo-device pty 32 # Pseudo ttys - can go as high as 256 pseudo-device gzip # Exec gzipped a.out's pseudo-device vn 7 # Vnode driver (turns a file into a device) pseudo-device ccd 4 # Concatenated disk driver # HARDWARE DEVICE CONFIGURATION controller isa0 options "AUTO_EOI_1" # Save 0.7-1.25 usec for each interrupt controller pnp0 # Enable PnP support in the kernel options XSERVER # Include code for XFree86 device sc0 at isa? port "IO_KBD" tty irq 1 vector scintr options MAXCONS=12 # number of virtual consoles options SC_HISTORY_SIZE=400 # number of history buffer lines device npx0 at isa? port "IO_NPX" iosiz 0x0 flags 0x0 irq 13 vector npxintr options "CMD640" # Enable work around for CMD640 h/w bug controller wdc0 at isa? port "IO_WD1" bio irq 14 flags 0xb0ffb0ff vector wdintr disk wd0 at wdc0 drive 0 disk wd1 at wdc0 drive 1 controller wdc1 at isa? port "IO_WD2" bio irq 15 flags 0xb0ffb0ff vector wdintr disk wd2 at wdc1 drive 0 disk wd3 at wdc1 drive 1 options ATAPI # Enable ATAPI support for IDE bus options ATAPI_STATIC # Don't do it as an LKM device wcd0 # IDE CD-ROM driver controller fdc0 at isa? port "IO_FD1" bio irq 6 drq 2 vector fdintr disk fd0 at fdc0 drive 0 disk fd1 at fdc0 drive 1 tape ft0 at fdc0 drive 2 device lpt0 at isa? port? tty irq 7 vector lptintr device sio0 at isa? port "IO_COM1" tty flags 0x10 irq 4 vector siointr device sio1 at isa? port "IO_COM2" tty irq 3 vector siointr device ed0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 9 iomem 0xd8000 vector edintr controller snd0 device sb0 at isa? port 0x220 irq 5 drq 1 vector sbintr device sbxvi0 at isa? drq 5 device sbmidi0 at isa? port 0x330 device joy0 at isa? port "IO_GAME" --------------EBAA7E041C4B15BDB689AC83-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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