Re: Deadlocks with recent SMP current

From: Robert Watson <rwatson_at_freebsd.org>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 2004 19:40:33 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 14 Aug 2004, Jon Noack wrote:

> Here's a data point:  My dual Pentium3 system has been up for 20+ hours
> with this patch. Previously, it wouldn't survive for more than an hour
> or so (regardless of load). 

Unfortunately, I'm running a box with the same patch and did get a hang.
The patch appears to correct some known stability issues associated with
threaded processes, but the build I was using to trigger the hang doesn't
use threads, so...

Robert N M Watson             FreeBSD Core Team, TrustedBSD Projects
robert_at_fledge.watson.org      Principal Research Scientist, McAfee Research
Received on Sat Aug 14 2004 - 21:42:20 UTC

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