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Date:      Fri, 23 Oct 2009 17:42:06 -0400
From:      Jacob Myers <jacob@whotookspaz.org>
To:        Jaime Bozza <jbozza@mindsites.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-stable@freebsd.org" <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Scott Ullrich <sullrich@gmail.com>
Subject:   Re: Possible scheduler (SCHED_ULE) bug?
Message-ID:  <4AE2232E.10406@whotookspaz.org>
In-Reply-To: <CF092998EA82AE4D83AF9C9ECA9A8BDE02EB411A8E@ATLAS.msg.local>
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Jaime Bozza wrote:
[snip]
> The additional information I have (over the PR) is that:
> 1) Files over 64K cause the problem, not just larger files
I thought it was over 1 MB or so. But maybe I'm wrong. ISTR that I
couldn't trigger it with some images of around 70K.

> 2) switching over to SCHED_4BSD eliminates the problem - system no longer locks.  
I will have to test this. This is indeed interesting...

> 3) 7.2 amd64 doesn't have the problem - Tested a similar configuration and was not able to duplicate on amd64 at all.
I can replicate this problem on FreeBSD 7.2/amd64 reliably.

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