Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 23:37:38 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com> To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: complete lockup under large I/O? Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901102337120.16348-100000@feral-gw> In-Reply-To: <199901110647.WAA87074@dingo.cdrom.com>
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I'll try, but last I heard BRK didn't work on serial lines. On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > 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. > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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