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Date:      Tue, 27 Jan 2004 14:19:54 -0800
From:      Peter Losher <Peter_Losher@isc.org>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: spin lock panic in 5.2-REL
Message-ID:  <200401271420.05240.Peter_Losher@isc.org>
In-Reply-To: <200401271334.07761.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040127082106.L14045@farside.isc.org> <200401271334.07761.jhb@FreeBSD.org>

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On Tuesday 27 January 2004 10:34 am, John Baldwin wrote:

> This is a very hard to debug problem.  If WITNESS is on it provides more
> useful information that can help track that down, but I wouldn't expect a
> production machine to be using WITNESS.

Yes, I was running a kernel for a short while w/ INVARIANTS and WITNESS, bu=
t=20
it was basically useless after a couple of hours under load under the giant=
=20
lock.  How much of a performance hit is just WITNESS?

(I also got a "me too" message from someone privately who experianced the s=
ame=20
issue after a 5.1->5.2 update)

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