On 4/18/12 12:38 PM, Michael wrote:
True, I've seen the same, especially with SMP. Very recent -current seems to do a lot better though, my dual G4 is still running 6.99.3 with both CPUs online and build.sh -j4 - previously it would hang or panic under moderate IO load, even a build on another machine with sources via nfs from the G4 would trigger it. So, my 2c: try -current and see what happens.
...and then figure out which changes make things stable so we can pull them up for 6.0. :)
-wearing my releng hat, +j