Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:48:43 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa apic_vector.s icu_vector.s Message-ID: <XFMail.010305074843.jhb@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <xzp8zmkwg6s.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 05-Mar-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes: >> This fixed some hard hangs that David was seeing on his machine under heavy >> load. > > I've been seeing solid hangs too with recent kernels (always under > heavy I/O load). They seemed to go away when I regressed to a > 2001-02-23 kernel. Haven't tried this patch yet. Heavy load could generate enough interrupts to overflow the stack and trash the pcb, so this very well might fix that. -- John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message
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