On Tue, Jul 13, 2004 at 07:57:22PM -0400, Sean Davis wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jul 2004 17:48:38 -0600 (MDT), Rick Kelly
> <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com> wrote:
> > Sean Davis said:
> > 
> > >Did it just hang, or did you hit the "sleep sleeps forever" bug?
> > >I hit that recently on my Ultra 1, running -current. I haven't hit it
> > >with 2.0_BETA on the same machine, though, and I've only hit it once
> > >on my Ultra 5 (current) which has been running 24/7 for a long time
> > >now.
> > 
> > I have an Ultra 5 that was hitting "sleep sleeps forever" with 1.6.2.
> > Longest uptime was about 80 days between sleeps. It's running 2.0_BETA
> > now and I'll just have to wait and see.
> 
> The one time that my Ultra 5 hit it, it had been up for something like
> 70 days. So maybe the reason I haven't hit it isn't because I'm lucky,
> but because I tend to update the box often enough that it's rarely up
> for more than a month, now... Has there been any progress in finding
> the cause of the bug? Has anybody compared our sparc64 code with, say,

It seems to be load and configuration dependant as I've never seen it
on my machines. It would help if problem were reproducable and problem
machine were easily accessible.

> FreeBSD or OpenBSD, which aren't affected by it (as far as I know)?

I looked (and in linux too), we diverged with OpenBSD quite a bit due to our SA,
FreeBSD was originated from BSDI core with our drivers so is quite different from
the beginning. You won't find a fix for the problem comparing sources.

	Andrey