kernel panic on 6.2-RC2 with GENERIC.

[Jeff Royle]

Craig Rodrigues wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 05, 2007 at 06:59:10PM +0200, Nikolay Pavlov wrote:
>> Hello folks.
>> I have kernel panic on GENERIC kernel while executing postmark.
> 
> The sequence of steps that Nikolay used to produce this panic was:
> 
> - install benchmarks/postmark from ports
> 
> root# postmark
> PostMark v1.5 : 3/27/01
> pm>set number=10000
> pm>set transactions=10000
> pm>set subdirectories=10000
> pm>show
> pm>run
> 

I was able to perform this test without issue on my latest test server 
using an Adaptec 2130SLP using Raid1 and 2 Ultra320 Scsi-3 drives. 
Plain install, GENERIC-SMP kernel:

su-2.05b# postmark
PostMark v1.5 : 3/27/01
pm>set number=10000
pm>set transactions=10000
pm>set subdirectories=10000
pm>set location /tmp
pm>run
Creating subdirectories...Done
Creating files...Done
Performing transactions..........Done
Deleting files...Done
Deleting subdirectories...Done
Time:
         102 seconds total
         69 seconds of transactions (144 per second)

Files:
         15027 created (147 per second)
                 Creation alone: 10000 files (588 per second)
                 Mixed with transactions: 5027 files (72 per second)
         4990 read (72 per second)
         5009 appended (72 per second)
         15027 deleted (147 per second)
                 Deletion alone: 10054 files (628 per second)
                 Mixed with transactions: 4973 files (72 per second)

Data:
         27.14 megabytes read (272.46 kilobytes per second)
         85.08 megabytes written (854.14 kilobytes per second)
pm>quit
su-2.05b# uname -a
FreeBSD testserv1.aci 6.2-RC2 FreeBSD 6.2-RC2 #0: Sun Dec 24 23:42:30 
UTC 2006     root at dessler.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP  i386


Cheers,

Jeff