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Date:      Mon, 25 May 1998 03:47:20 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com>
Cc:        Andreas Klemm <andreas@klemm.gtn.com>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Softupdates panic (got it!)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.980525034633.566C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980525053943.56833@gaffaneys.com>

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That shouldn't cause the problem..
there is code to specially handle that case.


On Mon, 25 May 1998, Zach Heilig wrote:

> On Mon, May 25, 1998 at 08:20:36AM +0200, Andreas Klemm wrote:
> > On Sat, May 23, 1998 at 02:30:09AM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > thanks
> > > we're collecting these for a blitz next week.
> 
> > Here on my SMP system it runs flawlessly since days.
> > Just wanted to let you know.
> 
> Ah, but how full are your disks, I have my system partitioned like:
> 
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> ...
> /dev/wd1s4a     89287    73519     8626    89%    /usr
> ...
> 
> When there is softupdates on '/usr', 'make installworld' causes a kernel panic
> regularly.  After watching it in action for awhile, and seeing that space is
> not reclaimed for several seconds; I can guess that the deletion delay causes
> /usr to fill up, and that causes the problem I see. 
> 
> -- 
> Zach Heilig -- zach@gaffaneys.com
> Real Programs don't use shared text.  Otherwise, how can they use
> functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
> 


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