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Date:      Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:18:59 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com>
Cc:        peter@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: phys backed shm patch.
Message-ID:  <20001205141859.F8051@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <200012052144.eB5LiNT86399@earth.backplane.com>; from dillon@earth.backplane.com on Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 01:44:23PM -0800
References:  <20001205123456.D8051@fw.wintelcom.net> <200012052144.eB5LiNT86399@earth.backplane.com>

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* Matt Dillon <dillon@earth.backplane.com> [001205 13:44] wrote:
> :
> :Ok, I spent quite some time trying to figure out why postgresql
> :would "hang" when using the 'kern.ipc.shm_use_phys' sysctl.
> :
> :It finally came down to some spinlocks that were being corrupted
> :in a very tiny shared memory segment.
> :
> :It seems like the phys_pager doesn't correctly allocate when
> :given a non PAGE_SIZE'd 'size' so then I think odd stuff happens
> :to the memory in the pages:
> 
>     Yes, you are absolutely right.  That's definitely a bug and your fix
>     is the correct one.

k thnx. :)

-- 
-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
"I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk."


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