From owner-freebsd-current Wed Mar 4 13:17:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA29027 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:17:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA28986 for ; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 13:16:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02509; Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:16:19 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) From: "John S. Dyson" Message-Id: <199803042116.QAA02509@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Donations. In-Reply-To: <199803041708.LAA03872@home.dragondata.com> from Kevin Day at "Mar 4, 98 11:08:51 am" To: toasty@home.dragondata.com (Kevin Day) Date: Wed, 4 Mar 1998 16:16:19 -0500 (EST) Cc: phk@critter.freebsd.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Kevin Day said: > > Karl, > > > > You're clearly into the category here, where you should consider paying > > somebody to fix the problems which plague your machines. Remember that > > many of us do not posses the needed setups to reproduce the problems > > reported in the NFS area. > > > > Poul-Henning > > On a side note: I believe that Karl and I are one of the few ISP-like > environments trying to run -current with NFS. I've got no problem with > anyone who is trusted here to come on and test NFS related patches, or > experiment a bit on my server. > > Seriously, most of the bugs can be reproduced by having /usr/src over NFS, > and doing the following: > > cp /dev/zero /usr/src/blah & > make buildworld -j4 > > That will usually cause a different panic every time, within 2 minutes. :) > I have a much simpler test that will cause a panic within about 10seconds. That is one of my highest priorities now, and I am still trying to trace down the very subtile problem. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message