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From: Gavin Atkinson <gavin@ury.york.ac.uk>
To: Seigo Tanimura <tanimura@r.dl.itc.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Cc: <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: A fix of recent bugs in swapping in/out a process
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On Sun, 28 Jul 2002, Seigo Tanimura wrote:
> If you are having a trouble of a broken thread state (eg a thread with
> TDS_RUNQ on no run queue) or a mysterious page fault on a kernel
> memory (probably in mi_switch()), you may want to try my patch at:
> http://people.FreeBSD.org/~tanimura/patches/procswap.diff.gz

I applied this patch a few hours ago and have not had a panic since, even
though the box has been used a lot and has been swapping a lot. It looks
like this has fixed my problem.

Thanks!

gavin


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