From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jan 26 18:27:40 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA09775 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:27:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fw.bby.com.au (ns.bby.com.au [192.83.119.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA09762 for ; Tue, 26 Jan 1999 18:27:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by fw.bby.com.au (8.8.8/8.6.9) id NAA20481; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:27:06 +1100 (EST) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au(192.168.71.20) via SMTP by fw.bby.com.au, id smtpd020479; Wed Jan 27 02:26:55 1999 Received: from lightning (lightning [192.168.71.20]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA21568; Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:26:54 +1100 (EST) Message-Id: <199901270226.NAA21568@lightning.itga.com.au> From: Gregory Bond To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Mike Smith , current@FreeBSD.ORG, Matt Behrens Subject: Re: SOFTUPDATES hangs keyboard In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:40:46 -0800. Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 13:26:54 +1100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I've just done my first CVSup since the 3-Stable split, using RELENG_3. This was after Matt D. committed a couple of VM fixes back to the 3-S branch. I have also enabled 32-bit DMA on my drive at the same time (amazing what you can learn from reading LINT - and read speed went from 3Mb/s to 12Mb/s). Whatever it was, it has seemingly fixed the problem I was having with softupdates-related system hangs. Previously, if I enabled softupdates on /usr/src, it would hang within a few seconds doing "cd /usr/src/games; make". Now I have done two entire "make buildworld"s with /usr/src and /usr/obj on the same softupdates partition with no hangs. It's still not perfect, because every so often when I reboot I get something like syncing disks: 13 9 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 giving up and I have had a panic when shutting down (something about freeing vnodes). I'm now running with DDB and INVARIANTS so I'll try and catch something more useful. And I'll try removing the flags from wd0 in the kernel and see if that is the problem.... Greg, still not quite brave enough to run softupdates on /usr or /var.... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message