From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 19 23:56:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA27395 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:56:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au [129.78.129.109]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id XAA27386 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 1997 23:56:52 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dawes@localhost) by rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au (8.8.5/8.8.2) id SAA03260; Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:56:32 +1100 (EST) From: David Dawes Message-Id: <199702200756.SAA03260@rf900.physics.usyd.edu.au> Subject: Re: another dup alloc panic. In-Reply-To: from J Wunsch at "Feb 20, 97 07:48:30 am" To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 18:56:32 +1100 (EST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL30 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> Although this was personal mail - I'm taking the liberty of reflecting >> it to freebsd-hackers so it will go into the archives... > >(David G:) >> > >> > It's really weird that you're seeing these panics so often. > >> > I've not seen >> > this on wcarchive (19 disk drives, all very busy), and I haven't seen it >> > on a local news server (which gets a full news feed and delivers news >> > to dozens of other sites). ...it just seems really strange that this >> > problem is hitting you so often when I've *never* seen it happen. >> >> Yes - that's been the paradox ever since it started.... > >Well, maybe Thomas, we probably have only seen this happening on 386 >CPUs so far? This would explain why only few people see it. I reported that I saw it recently on a Pentium (SCSI disk on an NCR controller). This is with 2.2 from a couple of weeks ago. I've only seen it once so far and it happened while repopulating a partition that had just been newfs'd. David