Re: Severe deadlock issues with 5.0/MP

[Holger Weiss <lists%jhweiss.de@localhost>]

* Anders Lindgren <ali%df.lth.se@localhost> [2009-02-02 11:37]:
> The system is running off of a 2x33G RAID1 Raidframe set, ffs logging is
> not yet enabled.
>
> In order to test the MP robustness, I started building the latest RC1
> sources like so:
>
> ./build.sh -j 8 [ -M ... ] tools kernel=GENERIC.MP distribution > /tmp/mk.log 
> 2>&1 &
>
> ..and sat back to watch the progress with tail -f. Before building gcc
> finished (still at building "tools"), all output just stopped. Pressing ^C
> on the "tail" just yielded "^C" in the terminal window (ssh session) but
> no effect, and after that the terminal session was completely dead.

FWIW, I'm seeing the same problem on my U80:

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-sparc64/2008/09/28/msg000577.html

I guess this might be the same issue as reported in kern/39993, in which
case it would not be sparc64-specific.

Holger