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Date:      Mon, 11 Jan 1999 23:43:08 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        Hidetoshi Shimokawa <simokawa@sat.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp>, alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: complete lockup under large I/O? 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901112340380.22029-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199901120708.XAA01319@dingo.cdrom.com>

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On Mon, 11 Jan 1999, Mike Smith wrote:

> > 
> > Well, I tried with the BRK option but it still hung and wouldn't drop into
> > DDB.
> 
> Can I assume that you don't have access to this system, or can't 
> otherwise get video onto it? 
> 
> ...
> > So, clearly some other evil deadlock has occurred.
> 
> Yup.  Nothing in your output is ringing any bells, unfortunately. 8(


No, it's a PC164 in my office. When I say it still won't drop into DDB, I
mean it *does* except when this deadlock happens.

BTW, I found out where it happens:

	lmdd if=/dev/rcc0c bs=1048k


(i.e., just over one megabyte). Something broken is occurring here which I
haven't time to trace today. The maxphys limitation seems to be happening
as 1024K dd sizes get limited to 64k transfers, so it may be some other
page lockdown foolishness.



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