Re: 5.99.15/amd64 resets (kernel panics?)

[Hisashi T Fujinaka <htodd%twofifty.com@localhost>]

On Mon, 29 Jun 2009, Nicolas Joly wrote:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 09:23:32PM +0000, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Just to check if I'm the only one seeing that:
> >
> > I built 5.99.15/amd64 from sources around today 1300 UTC and installed it.
> > A few minutes later, the remote connection reset.
> >
> > Later when I got home, I sat in front of the machine and created network
> > and hard disk traffic + X; the machine reset a few times, always in a very
> > short time frame (< 1h, usually less than 15 min).
> >
> > I had inserted a new hard disk today as well, so I took it out, but the
> > resets happened nevertheless.
> >
> > I have ddb.onpanic?=0 in my sysctl.conf, so perhaps it's just a kernel panic.
> >
> > It also happened when I went back to my previously stable 5.99.14 kernel
> > from 20090615 with the 5.99.15 userland; with and without the hard disk.
> >
> > I now went back to 5.99.14/20090615 completely (kernel and userland) and
> > the resets stopped (even with the hard disk and heavy hard disk activity).
> >
> > Anyone else have trouble with -current right now?
>
> Yep, same here. While, most of the time, there was a reset; i
> encountered some cases where it was badly stuck (no ddb console
> access) and needed a power cycle :-(
>
> I just reverted the Ephemeral mapping commit, and was able to run
> without any problem for a while ... I'm still crossing fingers.
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2009/06/28/msg222717.html

Did you guys get any further in debugging this? I'm going to revert to
see if that helps my hangs in amd64-current.

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