freezing, hard locking, and debug.mpsafenet=0

[Yuri Pankov]

On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 19:43 +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote:
> Elvar wrote:
> > Hi there,
> <snip>
> > http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38765&page=1&pp=1 
> > <http://www.freebsdforums.com/forums/showthread.php?t=38765&page=1&pp=1>  
> > which seemed to describe the same freezing I was having. One person 
> > mentioned setting debug.mpsafenet=0 in /boot/loader.conf and not having 
> > a problem since doing so. Well, I ended up doing the same thing and it's 
> > been about 25 days with not one freeze / lockup.
> > 
> > It's my understanding that the ability to even disable this has been 
> > taken out of 7.x, I only can hope that it's not an issue in 7.x like it 
> > is on some systems in 6.x. So anyway, I hope this helps someone out.
> 
> Hi,
> What hardware is this? Sounds very similar to something I've seen too, 
> if it's the samt issue I can confirm it is happening in -CURRENT also.
> 
> Could someone familiar with -CURRENT perhaps explain why this option 
> (debug.mpsafenet=0) is gone?
> 
> Per olof

This might be the answer:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2007-July/075180.html

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Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com>