Hi,

Chuck McManis wrote:
> 
> OK, I've built a DDB kernel and have identified that when the system hangs
> it does so because everyone is getting stuck in getnewbuf() (vfs_bio.c) The
> only sleep there is on needbuffer. And brelse should wake up the process if
> there was a free buffer but it appears as if all the buffers have been lost
> (aka buffer leak somewhere else in the kernel) since this happens
> relatively quickly when doing diskio I'm guessing that somewhere in the
> disk stuff there is a leak. (not the vfs layer since that would affect nfs
> as well.) 

	Hmmm. I'm running diskless and the system hangs when trying kernel
compile.

		Ari S.