From owner-cvs-all Mon Mar 5 7:49:20 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from moby.geekhouse.net (moby.geekhouse.net [64.81.6.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6886537B718; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 07:49:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@dhcp152.geekhouse.net [192.168.1.152]) by moby.geekhouse.net (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f25Fnv187758; Mon, 5 Mar 2001 07:49:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 07:48:43 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/isa apic_vector.s icu_vector.s Cc: cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 05-Mar-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > John Baldwin 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 -- 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