From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 12 00:45:32 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA17742 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:45:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles165.castles.com [208.214.165.165]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA17733 for ; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:45:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA01996; Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:41:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199901120841.AAA01996@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Frank J. Beckmann" cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: syncing disks ... giving up In-reply-to: Your message of "12 Jan 1999 02:08:40 +0100." <77e7ao$sar$1@atlantis.rz.tu-clausthal.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1999 00:41:43 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > 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