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Date:      Wed, 11 Mar 1998 19:01:01 +1030
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Softupdates code not Prime Time yet.
Message-ID:  <19980311190101.14276@freebie.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.980310231526.20313A-100000@current1.whistle.com>; from Julian Elischer on Tue, Mar 10, 1998 at 11:18:46PM -0800
References:  <26176.889599867@time.cdrom.com> <Pine.BSF.3.95.980310231526.20313A-100000@current1.whistle.com>

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On Tue, 10 March 1998 at 23:18:46 -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
>
>>> We have 2 (possibly but not neccesarily related) crash scenarios,
>>> and also a dependency tracking failure.
>>
>> Actually, on an SMP machine I can crash the box in 2 seconds flat.
>> Just mount the filesystem where /usr/obj lies with soft updates
>> enabled and ``make world''.  Bye box. :-)
>
> I can make world all day (and have for a week)
> on a UP P6-200
> Adding a process that untars and then cleans up a copy of X11R6
> makes the system crash after about N hours ( 1 < N < 12 )
> Having 2 such process makes no further difference.
> Amancio  has N where ( 1 < N < 3 ) so it's dependant on
> timing and other factors.

I have one where I can make world until the cows come home, but if I
wait much longer my nightly backup starts, and then it crashes within
about half an hour.

Greg

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