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Date:      Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:47:24 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        mjacob@feral.com
Cc:        alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: complete lockup under large I/O? 
Message-ID:  <199901110647.WAA87074@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:47:28 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901102145030.15860-100000@feral-gw> 

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> 
> I have a test script/program that repeatedly reads
> or writes a same spot on a device using progressively
> larger blocksizes.
> 
> I was using 3 8GB disks ccd'd together on a AlphaPC164 and the
> the system completely froze when it went about 1MB blocksizes.
> 
> Anyone have a notion about this?

You may be seeing a deadlock on resource starvation; it'd be really 
interesting to see the output of 'ps' if you can get into DDB.

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