Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1999 22:47:24 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: mjacob@feral.com Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: complete lockup under large I/O? Message-ID: <199901110647.WAA87074@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 10 Jan 1999 21:47:28 PST." <Pine.LNX.4.04.9901102145030.15860-100000@feral-gw>
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> > I have a test script/program that repeatedly reads > or writes a same spot on a device using progressively > larger blocksizes. > > I was using 3 8GB disks ccd'd together on a AlphaPC164 and the > the system completely froze when it went about 1MB blocksizes. > > Anyone have a notion about this? You may be seeing a deadlock on resource starvation; it'd be really interesting to see the output of 'ps' if you can get into DDB. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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