Date: Sat, 17 Oct 1998 07:49:17 -0400 (EDT) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8ren_Schmidt?= <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: donegan@quick.net, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: softupdates/smp Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9810170747340.25178-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <199810170934.LAA09826@sos.freebsd.dk>
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On Sat, 17 Oct 1998, Søren Schmidt wrote: > In reply to Chuck Robey who wrote: > > On Fri, 16 Oct 1998, Steven P. Donegan wrote: > > > > > After a long biz trip and other adventures... > > > > > > I finally got back to the list, and compiled today's kernel (SMP). Tried > > > a boot - no problem. Turned on softupdates on the disk (tunefs -n > > > enable). Boot proceeded and then tombstone. Is softupdates viable on > > > anyone's hardware at present under SMP? > > > > Solid here. With CAM and softupdates. Buildworlds like crazy. Wasn't > > always that way, but is now. Real good, this machine get's used heavily > > for schoolwork (I shouldn't run current on it, but I've been too heavily > > infected with FreeBSD). > > > > It's a dual P6-166, Tyan Titan II. Wouldn't part with it for the world. > > You are lucky I guess, I still think we have race problems in there, at > least it breaks real fast on a make work -j8 or above on resonably > fast hardware here, and remember your filesystem is then beyond repair... I don't doubt that. I know longer think it's just a smp only breakage, tho, something is complicating it. I've had those dumps, but luckily the filesystems I do that with, I could regenerate. Not my cvs. ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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