This is really weird because i see deadlocks only with IDE disks!While moving
large data to another SCSI disk everything is ok!Softdeps are huge performance 
win at least for me:)

Greetings


Quoting "Julio M. Merino Vidal" <jmmv@menta.net>:

> On Sun, 14 Mar 2004 01:10:26 +0100
> "Claudio M. Camacho" <claudiocamacho@vodafone.es> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >    Tonight before going home I was copying some GBs from a partition 
> > into other one (this one with softdep), I used the latest sources so 
> > softdep didnt have to bother so much; when it was about 3 GBs, (while I 
> > was downloading some packages and building some sources), the system
> > was crashed (hanged); the HD led was lighted and making sound like 
> > writing, but the system didn't respond; and there was no errors or no 
> > panics, maybe an infinite loop read/writing...
> 
> I have seen this too, while copying around 9 GB of data between disks,
> mounted w/ softdep and using NEW_BUFQ_STRATEGY (dunno if these have
> something to do).  The 'cp' process was stalled in uvn_fp1 status, as
> seen from ddb.  The amount of data copied was around 5 GB only.
> 
> I just tried again w/o softdep and everything went fine...
> 
> -- 
> Julio M. Merino Vidal <jmmv@menta.net>
> The NetBSD Project - http://www.NetBSD.org/
> 




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