From owner-freebsd-smp Wed Aug 19 23:31:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA01174 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sos.freebsd.dk (sos.freebsd.dk [212.242.40.180]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA01166; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 23:31:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sos@sos.freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by sos.freebsd.dk (8.9.1/8.8.8) id IAA02030; Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:29:44 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from sos) Message-Id: <199808200629.IAA02030@sos.freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: softupdates and smp crash In-Reply-To: <199808200100.SAA01161@usr05.primenet.com> from Terry Lambert at "Aug 20, 98 01:00:17 am" To: tlambert@primenet.com (Terry Lambert) Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1998 08:29:44 +0200 (CEST) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, croot@btp1da.phy.uni-bayreuth.de, regnauld@deepo.prosa.dk, current@FreeBSD.ORG, smp@FreeBSD.ORG From: Søren Schmidt Reply-to: sos@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In reply to Terry Lambert who wrote: > > > You are right, crash after 10 mins with -j8 ! > > > Werner > > > > So we can still say that softupdates are broken, at least for SMP. > > It would be more useful (than saying this) for people to characterize > the problem they are getting so that we can find a discriminitory > value. I suggest: I suggest reading Luoqi Chen's exelent explanation as why it breaks under SMP (hint: it has nothing todo with HW setups).. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team Even more code to hack -- will it ever end? .. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message