Re: deadlocks in recent 6-CURRENT

On Fri, 10 December 2004 at 17:10:32 -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:46:09PM -0800, Doug White wrote:
> > Oops, ignore me. Didn't see that witness was enabled afterwards.
> > 
> > > > PREEMPTION is on
> > 
> > This is known to cause problems. You enable it at your own risk.
> 
> Only on ULE, I thought.

It's 4BSD in my case.

> > > > WITNESS show two kinds of LOR's:
> 
> If you're getting LORs, chances are good you'll also get deadlocks
> (that's why lock order reversals are bad).

Thanks to suggestions received off the list I removed 'user' rules from
pf.conf and box runs fine for over 3 days.


Michal