>Number:         15299
>Category:       port-macppc
>Synopsis:       filling memfs crashes system
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-macppc-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Jan 19 07:08:00 PST 2002
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Andrew Cagney
>Release:        1.5.2 userland, current kernel
>Organization:
>Environment:
NetBSD localhost 1.5ZA NetBSD 1.5ZA (NETLUX) #0: Wed Jan 16 21:45:21 EST 2002     boor@localhost:/usr/src/sys/arch/macppc/compile/NETLUX macppc

>Description:
ac131313@nettle$ swapctl -lk
Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Priority
/dev/wd0b     1024000        0  1024000     0%    0
ac131313@nettle$ df -k /tmp
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
mfs:123        989776        4   940283     0%    /tmp

Copying data onto /tmp (memfs) eventually hangs system.


>How-To-Repeat:
Create a memfs file system.
Write data to it.  I'm using either GDB tar balls or a built GCC tree.

>Fix:

>Release-Note:
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