From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Oct 19 21:51:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from apollo.backplane.com (apollo.backplane.com [216.240.41.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7692A37B405; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:51:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by apollo.backplane.com (8.11.6/8.9.1) id f9K4pAU49727; Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:51:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 21:51:10 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon Message-Id: <200110200451.f9K4pAU49727@apollo.backplane.com> To: Doug Swarin Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, tmoestl@gmx.net, bp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more on Re: Please review: bugfix for vinvalbuf() References: <20010711003926.B8799@crow.dom2ip.de> <200107110643.f6B6hTB24707@earth.backplane.com> <20010926204333.A15865@staff.texas.net> <200109281747.f8SHlUP29063@earth.backplane.com> <20011019212807.A538@staff.texas.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :Unfortunately, the recent patch to vinvalbuf() hasn't solved all of :our problems. We had another, different panic today. The process that :caused it was a 'tail' of a growing logfile over NFS. : :I have actually had this problem before, with FreeBSD 3.4, and reported :it then. I believed this PR to be relevant at the time, however, I do :not believe this client was writing to the file. : : [1998/06/23] kern/7028 http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=7028 : panic in vinvalbuf when appending/looking at tail of NFS file : :The system is running 4.4-RELEASE with the vinvalbuf() patch. Debugging :information is below. If I can provide any additional information, :let me know. : :Thanks for any help, :Doug How easily can you reproduce this? How often does it occur if you leave a tail running? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message