On Mon, 23 Aug 2004, Lukas Ertl wrote: > On Sun, 22 Aug 2004, Doug White wrote: > >> If you have a reasonably fast i386 or amd64 multiprocessor and/or >> hyperthreading machine and are experiencing reproducible hangs during -j >> buildwords and other highly parallel operations, please try this patch: >> >> http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/smp_rv_mtx.patch > > Looks good here - several of my Xeon boxes that were subject to deadlocks > have survived -j4 buildworlds and other load situations with this patch. OK, it seems I shouted out too early. '-jX' buildworlds go fine, but my news server (heavy disk and network traffic) still locks up within one day of uptime. It's a Dual Xeon with HTT, SCHED_4BSD, ADAPTIVE_GIANT, and no WITNESS or INVARIANTS. cheers, le -- Lukas Ertl http://homepage.univie.ac.at/l.ertl/ le_at_FreeBSD.org http://people.freebsd.org/~le/Received on Tue Aug 24 2004 - 10:15:01 UTC
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