Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 18:42:57 +0100 From: Uwe Doering <gemini@geminix.org> To: Igor Sysoev <is@rambler-co.ru> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vnode_pager_putpages errors and DOS? Message-ID: <4193A4A1.5060106@geminix.org> In-Reply-To: <20041111201159.I41088@is.park.rambler.ru> References: <Pine.NEB.3.96L.1041009150440.93055O-100000@fledge.watson.org> <4168578F.7060706@geminix.org> <20041103191641.K63546@is.park.rambler.ru> <4189666A.9020500@geminix.org> <20041104124616.S92154@is.park.rambler.ru> <418BEBC2.3020304@geminix.org> <20041111190413.F41088@is.park.rambler.ru> <20041111192947.A41088@is.park.rambler.ru> <20041111201159.I41088@is.park.rambler.ru>
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Igor Sysoev wrote:
> On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Igor Sysoev wrote:
>
>>>>I've attached an updated version of the patch for 'vnode_pager.c'. On
>>>>my test system it resolved the issue. Please let us know whether it
>>>>works for you as well.
>>>
>>>Sorry for the late response: I was ill and have no access to the test machine.
>>>I applied the patch to the clean 4.10. The result is the same: the process
>>>could not be killed, the file system access is very limited and the system
>>>became unresponsible.
>>
>>Sorry, I applied the patch, but forget to rebuild kernel :).
>>
>>It seems that patch resolves the problem - the program exits and the system
>>is working. I run it several times. I would also run buildworld on this
>>system to ensure that the program did not affect VM.
>
> make -j 32 buildworld ran without problems.
Good to hear that it works for you, too. So, one long-standing bug less.
However, the real challenge could turn out to be finding a committer for
RELENG_4, now that everybody is working on RELENG_5 and above. I have a
number of PRs in GNATS already that are slowly rotting away since
apparently nobody is willing to deal with them, even though they all
have patches attached. So I stopped submitting PRs for now. Wasted
time, unfortunately.
Uwe
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