Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:41:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: "Frank J. Beckmann" <frank@vogon.agala.harz.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syncing disks ... giving up Message-ID: <199901120841.AAA01996@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "12 Jan 1999 02:08:40 %2B0100." <77e7ao$sar$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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> Hi, > > until a few days ago I used 3.0-current elf with a.out kernel of early > december. Then i updated to a curent current and elf kernel. Since then > my disks can't get synced when I do a shutdown. It says "syncing disks..." > and the number of busy local buffers goes down to 5 or for, but not below > that number. Syncing the disks only succedes in one in about 10 times. Can't help you here... > Another problem is related to apm. Halting used to switch my ATX > mainboard of but that doesn't work anymore. But if you were reading -current (as you should) I think you should have seen the change to halt/shutdown to use '-p' to power off. > This 2 problems happen with and without SMP enabled. > > I have also a SMP problem. I get hundreds of silo overflows under load > with SMP but I don't get that errors without SMP. This is probably a 'feature' of the current SMP interrupt handling code. > Last question is: does rc.shutdown ever get executed? When you run "shutdown", yes. -- \\ 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-current" in the body of the message
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