From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jan 20 10:34:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00557 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:34:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picalon.gun.de (picalon.gun.de [194.77.0.18] (may be forged)) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00551 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:34:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andreas@klemm.gtn.com) Received: from klemm.gtn.com (pppak04.gtn.com [194.231.123.169]) by picalon.gun.de (8.8.6/8.8.6) with ESMTP id TAA01894; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:34:10 +0100 (MET) Received: (from andreas@localhost) by klemm.gtn.com (8.9.2/8.9.2) id TAA01578; Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:33:55 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andreas) Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 19:33:54 +0100 From: Andreas Klemm To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Andreas Klemm , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: vinvalbuf: dirty bufs (during reboot, several times) Message-ID: <19990120193354.A1554@titan.klemm.gtn.com> References: <19990120073445.A402@titan.klemm.gtn.com> <199901200700.XAA76802@apollo.backplane.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.1i In-Reply-To: <199901200700.XAA76802@apollo.backplane.com>; from Matthew Dillon on Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:00:55PM -0800 X-Disclaimer: A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT SMP Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jan 19, 1999 at 11:00:55PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote: > > Hmm. Interesting, it's dying trying to fsync an FFS vnode. Are you > by any chance running NFS ( client *or* server ) on this box? No, no NFS compiled in and am not using it. See my kernel config. > First, if either of you are compiling up your own kernels, please > remember that if you are using SOFTUPDATES, the SOFTUPDATES code > does *NOT* reside in /usr/src/sys but instead resides in > /usr/src/contrib/sys ... when you update your kernel, also make sure > that /usr/src/contrib/sys is updated. I know this, but checked it to be sure, yes I use the 'up to date' softupdate source from contrib/sys. * from: @(#)ffs_softdep.c 9.28 (McKusick) 8/8/98 * $Id: ffs_softdep.c,v 1.20 1999/01/07 16:14:10 bde Exp $ * @(#)softdep.h 9.5 (McKusick) 2/11/98 * $Id: softdep.h,v 1.4 1998/05/19 23:07:25 julian Exp $ > If I can reproduce it on one of my machines, I can probably figure out > what is going on. If both of you are running NFS, it could possibly be > the NFS server forgetting to unbusy a page somewhere. If you aren't > running NFS, it could be an actual bug in FFS somewhere(!). No NFS. -- Andreas Klemm http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~andreas What gives you 90% more speed, for example, in kernel compilation ? http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/~fsmp/SMP/akgraph-a/graph1.html "NT = Not Today" (Maggie Biggs) ``powered by FreeBSD SMP'' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message