http://www.holm.cc/stress/log/cons141.html

[Gleb Smirnoff]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 08:39:32PM +0200, Peter Holm wrote:
P> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2005 at 10:51:55AM +0200, Peter Holm wrote:
P> > P> > how often the panic in subject fires? I guess it is related to the problem
P> > P> > discussed in this thread [1], and may be even the patch I've posted there
P> > P> > will help.
P> > P> >
P> > P> 
P> > P> The panic is almost instantanious if I run the stress test while doing
P> > P> an "arp -d xxx".
P> > 
P> > The attached WIP patch helps me. The [1] script can't drop my box to panic
P> > anymore, when running in 15 instances on 4-x CPU box.
P> 
P> Yes, works for me! I've been testing for three hours without any
P> problems and then ran into another unrelated livelock.

Were you running it with WITNESS or without? How many CPUs does your box have?
I've got a hard panic without access to ddb when running without WITNESS.
I think WITNESS slowness can hide some races. I'll continue to work on this
tomorrow.

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