on 11/08/2011 20:14 Steven Hartland said the following: > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andriy Gapon" <a...@freebsd.org> > >>>> I would really appreciate if you could try to reproduce the >>>> problem with the patch that I sent earlier. >>> >>> Hi Andriy, what's the risk of this patch causing other issues? >> >> I can not estimate. >> The code is supposed to affect only things that happen after panic, >> so make your guess. > > So in theory should be good. > >>> I ask as to get results from this we've going to have to roll it >>> out to over 130+ production machines, so I'd like to be clear on >>> the risks before I sign that off. >> >> I will be happy if you try the patch on a single machine >> provided the problem is that reproducible. > > Unfortunately although its happening a lot its taking the > large numbers of machines to make it that way. > > Over the 130+ machines we're seeing between 3 and 8 panics > a day, so based on that we could be waiting quite some time > for a specific machine to panic :( > > Don't think we're going to make any progress on this in the current > state so I think we'll give it a shot.
Maybe test it on couple of machines first just in case I overlooked something essential, although I have a report from another use that the patch didn't break anything for him (it was tested for an unrelated issue). -- Andriy Gapon _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"