Re: preemption stable under 5.3?

2004-11-08 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Mon, 2004-11-08 at 16:11, Julian Elischer wrote: > Robert Watson wrote: > > >On Mon, 8 Nov 2004, Mipam wrote: > > > > > > > >>Thanks for your reply, okay, then i'd like to enable preemption. I > >>noticed it's not in the GENERIC kernel config file. So: options > >>PREEMPTION would suffice

Re: propagate_priority KASSERT

2004-11-23 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 22:21, Mark Gooderum wrote: > We're currently tripping accross the following KASSERT in > subr_turnstile.c (in 5.3.0 RELEASE): > > /* > * XXX: The owner of a turnstile can be stale if it is the > * first thread to grab a slock of a sx lock. In that

Re: panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck

2004-11-23 Thread Stephan Uphoff
useful working life of aging hardware. > > > > The practice is that it it has now crashed three times in a couple of > > days with "panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck", the most recent one > > dragging me out from home early in a Monday morning. > > We

Re: SMP support problem - panic: APIC: Previous IPI is stuck

2004-11-29 Thread Stephan Uphoff
ch an error, it stops responding ... > >>> > >>>I have searched all mailing lists but I can not find a solution except > >>>disabling SMP support in kernel which can not handle the traffic. What > >>>can be done in this situation? I will be pleased for

Re: Diagnostic tools for external hard drives?

2005-03-13 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Sat, 2005-03-12 at 15:54, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > Hello, > > Does FreeBSD (stable) have any tools that I can use to run diagnostics > on an external hard drive? > > I have a Maxtor One Touch 250GB external hard drive (the one with both > USB and Firewire connectors). This is connected to my

Re: Status of kern/79700, nfs lockups

2005-05-19 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Thu, 2005-05-19 at 18:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I notice that this pr hasn't gotten any attention. > "Suspending process that is actively writing to a file on an > nfs mount causes future access to that file by other > processes to hang until the first process is resumed." > > I didn't car

Re: Packet loss every 30.999 seconds

2007-12-19 Thread Stephan Uphoff
David G Lawrence wrote: Try it with "find / -type f >/dev/null" to duplicate the problem almost instantly. FreeBSD used to have some code that would cause vnodes with no cached pages to be recycled quickly (which would have made a simple find ineffective without reading the files at lea

Re: latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell

2007-06-28 Thread Stephan Uphoff
Andrei Kolu wrote: According to Theo de Raadth http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631 latest Intel Core 2 Duo processors are buggy as hell. What counter-measures are taken within FreeBSD community? The MMU specification updates described in the documented were easily handled

Re: thanks for commiting (MFC ffs_softdep.c 1.182, softdep.h 1.18) to RELENG_5 and 6. When in 4?

2005-08-31 Thread Stephan Uphoff
On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 03:51, Igor Sysoev wrote: > On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Tomaz Borstnar wrote: > > >Would some kind soul MFC ffs_softdep.c 1.182, softdep.h 1.18 into > > RELENG_4 as well? This bug is also present in FreeBSD 4.x. Found it ever > > since 4.7. > > I saw this annoying bug a