Re: build.sh soft-halts machine on 4.99.49 kernel, with 4.99.48 userland.

[Michael Lorenz <macallan%netbsd.org@localhost>]

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Hello,

On Jan 12, 2008, at 09:25, Andrew Doran wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 03:33:05PM -0800, Marc Tooley wrote:
>
> > I'll double-check the actual filesystem type (v1 or v2.. I think  
> > it was
> > newfs -o time -O 2) tonight, as it's paused again.
>
> Looks like you are using softdep - I fixed a problem yesterday that  
> could
> have caused this. Can you please update your kernel sources and try  
> again?

I get something similar since 4.99.48 - processes accessing anything  
on an lfs filesystem get stuck after a while, waiting on lfs_sdir. I  
thought it's an SMP problem ( first noticed it on a dual G4 ) but now  
I see it on a sparc64 box as well.

have fun
Michael
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