Re: Current is in a very desolated state

On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, Martin Blapp wrote:

> Even with the disabled preemtion CURRENT is in a very desolated state at
> the moment - and this one week before freeze. 
> 
> While I was able to run a server with 5.2.1 about 1 month without
> panicing, this is no longer true with recent current. 
> 
> The panics I get are in the timer codepath or sometimes in the vfs
> layer.  It's very easy to kill the machine with high load (rm -rfd
> /usr/src while running a make world -j 10) kills the server. 
> 
> I also get this panic after 20 - 30 minutes load

You left out the panic message.  In fact, you left out all three panic
messages.  This will makes it a lot harder to debug the problems you're
experiencing.  While I'm sure you're already familiar with it, you can
find instructions for setting up the debugging environment and making bug
reports in the handbook.

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research


> propagate_priority(c34e3420,0,82b45d4f,16ccf49,ffc00014) at
> propagate_priority+0x82
> turnstile_wait(c3bd0480,c09396a0,c3aea840,c35b0680,4) at turnstile_wait+0x325
> _mtx_lock_sleep(c09396a0,c34e3420,0,0,0) at _mtx_lock_sleep+0x122
> ithread_loop(c3460980,de97bd48,0,0,0) at ithread_loop+0x19c
> fork_exit(c062a1af,c3460980,de97bd48) at fork_exit+0x80
> fork_trampoline() at fork_trampoline+0x8
> 
> This is an SMP box with two XEON's, running a SMP kernel with SCHEDBSD.
> 
> Martin
> 
> Martin Blapp, <mb_at_imp.ch> <mbr_at_FreeBSD.org>
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