From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 2 01:53:45 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6D6416A4BF for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from student.uci.agh.edu.pl (student.uci.agh.edu.pl [149.156.98.60]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3B77943FBD for ; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:53:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from winfried@student.uci.agh.edu.pl) Received: by student.uci.agh.edu.pl (Postfix, from userid 25828) id 6C51E6465C; Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:53:43 +0200 (CEST) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 10:53:43 +0200 From: Jan Srzednicki To: current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030902085343.GF6853@student.agh.edu.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Subject: Re: Syncer "giving up" on buffers X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: w@dream.vg List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Sep 2003 08:53:46 -0000 On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:53:48PM +0300, Lefteris Chatzibarbas wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with kernels, built the last couple of days, where > during shutdown syncer is "giving up" on buffers. During the next boot > all filesystems are checked because of improper dismount. Here follow > the exact messages I get: > > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `vnlru' to stop...stopped > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `bufdaemon' to stop...stopped > Waiting (max 60 seconds) for system process `syncer' to stop...stopped > > syncing disks, buffers remaining... 8 8 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 6 > giving up on 6 buffers > Uptime: 41m20s > pfs_vncache_unload(): 1 entries remaining > Shutting down ACPI > Rebooting... > > After some testing I found out that this does _not_ happen if I manually > unmount my ext2 filesystems, before shutting down. In this case syncer > finishes without any problems. I confirm that, same thing happened in my case. But, I had just one buffer remaining and ext2fs mounted in read-only. It seems that it's not so read-only then.. -- -- wrzask --= v =-- Winfried --===-- GG# 3838383 --- -- w@dream.vg --- w@303.krakow.pl --===-- http://violent.dream.vg/ --- --=< Ride the wild wind - push the envelope, don't sit on the fence, --- -- Ride the wild wind - live life on the razor's edge! >=-- Queen --