From owner-freebsd-current Sun Feb 25 15:46:28 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from rover.village.org (rover.bsdimp.com [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 206DE37B491 for ; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:46:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (billy-club.village.org [10.0.0.3]) by rover.village.org (8.11.2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id f1PNkLh85147; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:46:21 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@billy-club.village.org) Received: from billy-club.village.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by billy-club.village.org (8.11.2/8.8.3) with ESMTP id f1PNhQY01286; Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:43:26 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200102252343.f1PNhQY01286@billy-club.village.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: Giving up on buffers Cc: Matt Dillon , Kirk McKusick , current@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "25 Feb 2001 14:00:53 +0100." References: <200102231206.EAA12234@beastie.mckusick.com> <200102231756.f1NHuAX83112@earth.backplane.com> Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2001 16:43:25 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: : Matt Dillon writes: : > (2) the I/O for the buffer synchronization is initiated but interrupts : > are winding up being disabled by the halt code due to holding Giant : > and not sleeping (more likely). That all I can think of. We've hit : > the interrupt disablement problem before in -current, it's probably : > something simliar. : : Sounds likely. On my laptop, the "giving up on n buffers" message is : usually accompanied by an ata0 timeout. Just FYI: ata isn't printing a timeout for me. However, I have had several panics with the lpt problem which freeze the system hard in the syncing buffers. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message