Subject: Re: Did you ever find the source of the "sleep sleeps forever" problem?
To: None <port-sparc64@NetBSD.org>
From: john heasley <heas@shrubbery.net>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/14/2004 09:03:25
Are those experiencing this problem all using softdeps?  I do not and
have never witnessed it (U60 450mhz -current).

Wed, Jan 14, 2004 at 05:36:42PM +0100, Stoned Elipot:
> Same here,
> netra X1s and 220R, sometimes after a couple of minutes of uptime
> sometimes after weeks. All running 1.6*.
> 
> 
> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:17:12PM +0100, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 11:33:06PM +1100, matthew green wrote:
> > > 
> > > on sparc64 it's been very strange.  on my U1 it would sometimes not
> > > appear for days, othertimes it would be there by the time multiuser
> > > was reached..  for another developer, his U1 goes into this mode after
> > > 63 (?) days of uptime.  until fairly recently, we were the only two
> > > who had hit this problem that i knew of... it's more like something
> > > gets clobbered than not initialised.
> > 
> > count me in.  U1 as well.  first time it happened after ~2 weeks of
> > uptime, later only after 2 days.  sometimes it just runs without any
> > problems for weeks.  the machine is now offline so i can't chek more.
> > 
> > 
> > regards,
> > 
> > -- 
> > -- Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>                   --
> > --                  <salo@silcnet.org>                   --
>