Subject: Re: Manual creation of a vnd image - newfs freezes
To: None <port-xen@netbsd.org>
From: Michael van Elst <mlelstv@serpens.de>
List: port-xen
Date: 01/23/2007 20:54:20
bouyer@antioche.eu.org (Manuel Bouyer) writes:

>the character device, it talks directly to the driver. I guess using
>vnd0a you fill up the buffer cache quickly, and the system crawls because
>it has no free memory.

The system deadlocks because it has no free buffers (but possibly
still tons of free memory).


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