From owner-freebsd-emulation Fri Mar 31 10: 0:31 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from guardian.sftw.com (guardian.sftw.com [209.157.37.25]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EAC637B953 for ; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from yoda.sftw.com (yoda.sftw.com [209.157.37.211]) by guardian.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA90019; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Received: from sftw.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by yoda.sftw.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA02143; Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nsayer@sftw.com) Message-ID: <38E4E7B5.7B74D31C@sftw.com> Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 10:00:22 -0800 From: Nick Sayer Reply-To: nsayer@kfu.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.72 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Dillon Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware locks FreeBSD 4.0 solid References: <38E3FB31.3DD4D170@sftw.com> <14564.53252.962047.551231@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <200003311728.JAA29464@apollo.backplane.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org For what it's worth, in my case, mfs is no longer part of the picture. [...] > I suspect that the pagedaemon is trying to do a biord off the MFS > filesystem and the MFS filesystem is locked up in vmwait. With the > pagedaemon waiting for MFS and MFS waiting for free pages, the system > winds up deadlocked. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message