What parts of UMA are part of the stable ABI?

2015-03-13 Thread Ryan Stone
In this freebsd-hackers thread[1], a user reported that 10.1-RELEASE crashes during boot on a system with 3TB of RAM. As it turns out, when you have that much RAM ZFS autotunes itself to allocate a 6GB hash table. This triggers a nasty 32-bit integer truncation bug in malloc(9). malloc() calls u

Re: [PATCH] Convert the VFS cache lock to an rmlock

2015-03-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
[snip] someone emailed me privately - no tracking/priority lending is happening for readers. :( -a ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-

Re: [PATCH] Convert the VFS cache lock to an rmlock

2015-03-13 Thread Adrian Chadd
Again, why's it not loaning priority to the lock-owning thread when it's blocked? I thought that's what is supposed to happen. -adrian ___ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] Convert the VFS cache lock to an rmlock

2015-03-13 Thread Ryan Stone
On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 1:36 PM, Mateusz Guzik wrote: > Workloads like buildworld and the like (i.e. a lot of forks + execs) run > into very severe contention in vm, which is orders of magnitude bigger > than anything else. > > As such your result seems quite suspicious. > You're right, I did me

Acer C720 random complete power-off

2015-03-13 Thread Matthias Apitz
Hello, I run HEAD i386 on an Acer C720 netbook (the so called Cromebook), which works pretty much fine and very fast. The device is used on a daily basis with 18++ hours uptime a day. >From time to time (since January exactly 5 times) I faced a complete randomly power-off of the device. Please,