Subject: (2) Softdep with slow CPU
To: None <tech-kern@netbsd.org>
From: Florian Stoehr <netbsd@wolfnode.de>
List: tech-kern
Date: 05/13/2005 16:36:47
Forgot to mention, this is the 2.0 release.

-Florian

On Fri, 13 May 2005, Florian Stoehr wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I saw there are many PRs about softdep still open.
>
> Here's perhaps another one - can someone confirm this?
>
> On an ancient 80386-DX, I experiences crashes (system locks up) when 
> partitions mounted softdep during large file operations (installing via bpm). 
> Without softdep, things go fine.
>
> Case is reproducable.
>
> I assume it's the slow CPU as this system has 20 MB RAM. I successfully run 
> large file operations on 16 MB systems - with CPUs > 200 MHz.
>
> Worth another PR?
>
> -Flo
>