Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 19:13:02 -0500 From: Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, mcgovern@spoon.beta.com Subject: mmap bugs (was Re: ahc problems (with vinum?)) Message-ID: <4.1.19991128190819.0518bd70@granite.sentex.ca> In-Reply-To: <199911281945.NAA68811@aurora.sol.net> References: <199911281756.KAA21363@panzer.kdm.org>
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At 02:45 PM 11/28/99 , Joe Greco wrote: >I have certainly beat the $#!+ out of these systems in a variety of ways, >and have run into some odd things. Most were traceable to SCSI issues. >Some didn't get classified. I'm running vinum in a ten-filesystem config >on top of the 18 18GB drives, and I copy in data from another machine. I >then have an application which mmap()'s the files, doing search and replace >ops on the data. Running this app in parallel causes the system to hang >(eventually causing the watchdog to expire and reset the system). Running >it serially on one fs at a time doesn't. This is probably the most >worrisome of the issues I've seen. If you have a recommended revision of >the ahc driver you'd like me to try, let me know. Can you post more details of the mmap bug you have come across ? It would be nice if this were fixed for 3.4. mcgovern@spoon.beta.com is coordinating testing of RCs for 3.4. Perhaps this is a problem that someone could be fix in time. ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 519 651 3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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