Hello all, since 2 months, NetBSD -current is giving me some 
headaches. The problem is with uvm and pagedaemon.

   In the beginning, pagedaemon spoke out a lot of warnings messages 
about deadlocks (pagedaemon: deadlock detected!), I know there was a 
thread on this mailing-list about this, I didnt have enought time to 
pay attention so I dont know what did you talk about here.

   The problem is, I update my src everyday and I build the new system 
everyday and when I come home, I test pagedaemon untaring some tarballs 
simoultaneously, but it's impossible. Since 1 week, I cannot untar even 
just 1 tarball in time (a little syssrc.tgz makes pagedaemon speak), 
and the worst is that if you dont stop the tar process, the system is 
hanged.

   I've got 512MB of RAM (dont think that's my problem), I use 1G of 
swap; and my kernel is always the latest, I use NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY
and FFS with 8K block-size and 1K fragment-size (32K/4K for /home 
partition). I use an Intel pentium4.

   My question is: is there any plan to fix that PR (about deadlocks 
with pagedaemon)?? It was able to use the system for a while, but 
nowadays, (i dont know why), the pagedaemon register deadlocks much 
soon, so it's impossible to work around.

   Thanks in advance.

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Claudio M. Camacho

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