From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Feb 15 15:05:34 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA08661 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:05:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA08448 for ; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 15:04:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id AAA29796 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 16 Feb 1998 00:04:31 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto@keltia.freenix.fr) Received: (from roberto@localhost) by keltia.freenix.fr (8.8.8/keltia-2.13/nospam) id XAA07721; Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:45:14 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from roberto) Message-ID: <19980215234514.36406@keltia.freenix.fr> Date: Sun, 15 Feb 1998 23:45:14 +0100 From: Ollivier Robert To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM messed: vm_page_free panic problem Mail-Followup-To: hackers@freebsd.org References: <19980215132713.12891@keltia.freenix.fr> <199802152139.OAA03239@usr01.primenet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.90.3i In-Reply-To: <199802152139.OAA03239@usr01.primenet.com>; from Terry Lambert on Sun, Feb 15, 1998 at 09:39:57PM +0000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT ctm#4066 AMD-K6 MMX @ 225 MHz Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG According to Terry Lambert: > If an FS was mounted async, it could have been damaged beyond the > ability of fsck to repair it as the result of a crash. I do not In this case, the panic happen before any file system is mounted (except / but I do not mount / async). > spend time railing against async just because I like to hear myself > type. I do it because async is actually dangerous to FS integrity. I know that but have yet to lose one file since introduction of async mounts in FreeBSD. Even with /usr/src and the CVS repository async. > Ah. Compression. Disable your internal and external cache for the > time you are booting, and see if it fixes it. Also, do you have 48M? No, 64 MB. > Do you have a 3.0 installed? You should take the kernel from the Yes, I run CURRENT. I was just trying to recover from a stupid mistake (mount was compiled shared because when I "cvs co'ed" outside /usr/src, the NOSHARED option was not here) during my soft updates test. I just tumbled on the -- now -- known problem with the current bootdisks. -- Ollivier ROBERT -=- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve! -=- roberto@keltia.freenix.fr FreeBSD keltia.freenix.fr 3.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Feb 14 15:42:16 CET 1998 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message