Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2003 10:30:50 -0600 From: Scott Long <scottl@freebsd.org> To: Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com> Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Release Engineering Status Report Message-ID: <3F673ABA.4000100@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20030916111410.F12166@odysseus.silby.com> References: <3F66A446.7090408@freebsd.org> <20030916131622.N54869@news1.macomnet.ru> <20030916200513.R4917@gamplex.bde.org> <3F672308.1080909@freebsd.org> <3F673285.8080903@potentialtech.com> <3F6735B7.9050109@freebsd.org> <20030916111410.F12166@odysseus.silby.com>
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Mike Silbersack wrote: > On Tue, 16 Sep 2003, Scott Long wrote: > > >>Patches have been floated on the mailing list that revert PAE in its >>various stages. Maybe those need to be brought back up. Silby? Tor? >> >>Scott > > > I believe that Tor's commit on August 30th resolved the PAE-related > problems, so there is no need for a reversion. Since that time, I've seen > three panics posted: > > 1. Some netinet/ related panic which I couldn't make heads or tails of, > and I haven't any followup reports from the poster. > > 2. Maxim's buildworld -j64 memory kmap entry exhaustion panic, which can > be fixed by increasing the number of kmap entries. (Tor has a patch for > this, I will probably commit it soon.) > > 3. A panic caused by sending 64K-1 ping packets, which I can't reproduce. > > (There's also a small problem with if_xl on pentium-1 machines, but since > it's my fault and I'm waiting on test results from a guy, we won't talk > about it.) > > (Hey, anyone have a pentium-200 and a 3com 905B card? Contact me, further > testing can't hurt.) > > So, as far as I can tell, there are no remaining problems related to PAE; > I believe that most people are venting frustration that built up between > August 9th and 30th. > > Mike "Silby" Silbersack > Ok, thanks for the update. Since it is 17 days after Aug 30 and people are still upset, the status was very unclear to the Release Engineering Team. So I guess we ened to solicit updates from the people who were directly experiencing problems, and ask for everyone else to test it as much as possible. Scotthome | help
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