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Date: Mon, 13 Feb 2006 11:08:54 +0300
From: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org>
To: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@FreeBSD.org>
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Subject: Re: insta-panic in softclock() -> acctwatch()
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On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 01:36:36AM +0200, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
G> I've finally managed to catch one of the panics of a 2006.01.25 kernel
G> in action, while working on the console.  Unfortunately, not with a
G> debugging kernel, but the function backtrace was:
G> 
G>     panic()
G>     sleepq_add()
G>     cv_wait_unlock()
G>     cv_wait()
G>     _sx_xlock()
G>     acctwatch()
G>     softclock()
G> 
G> This went away after I disabled process accounting in `rc.conf', but it
G> may help someone more experienced with process accounting to find a
G> better fix :)

AFAIK, John has fixed this recently. Check whether you have last revision
of kern_acct.c

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