On Tue, 3 Apr 2007, Johnny Billquist wrote:

> Also, probably very unrelated. A kernel as built today is not useable. It 
> goes up to about 100% system time as soon as I copy anything from an NFS 
> mounted disk to a local disk on my VAX.
> This is 4.99.16. I have an older build (4.99.15) where this don't happen, so 
> something changed recently. But like I said, I don't think that is related to 
> GCC.

   I think this is related to mutex_spin_{enter,exit), which I am looking 
at.  I think it also causes the le0 device to not be detected on my 
4000/VLC, and probably on the 3100 mentioned in an earlier port-vax 
message.

   A work-around may be to build a kernel with LOCKDEBUG.

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Michael L. Hitch			mhitch@montana.edu
Computer Consultant
Information Technology Center
Montana State University	Bozeman, MT	USA