Ok, are all the panics fixed now?

Mike Silbersack silby at silby.com
Wed Aug 27 11:35:22 PDT 2003


On Wed, 27 Aug 2003, Mike Silbersack wrote:

> Ah, that's a good idea!
>
> I'll try setting hw.physmem down to 12M or so and see if that causes the
> panics to occur over here.
>
> Mike "Silby" Silbersack

Ok, I booted with hw.physmem="16M", and a buildworld paniced with
"free/cache page dirty".  (I was taking a nap at the time the buildworld
crashed, we'll talk about that soon.)

(Are you guys running with INVARIANTS?)

So, I think we'll just include a warning with 4.9:

WARNING!

Do not attempt to stress a FreeBSD 4.9 machine if you:

a) Will be swapping whatsoever
or
b) Will be taking a nap while it is running.

Doing either or both of these may result in panics.

Mike "Silby" Silbersack

P.S. - now that we have an easy way to reproduce this, perhaps we can get
it fixed.


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