Subject: kern/13322: lockup caused by SOFTDEP under high load
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <dive-nb@endersgame.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/27/2001 08:53:52
>Number: 13322
>Category: kern
>Synopsis: hard lockup caused by lots of disk access
>Confidential: no
>Severity: critical
>Priority: high
>Responsible: kern-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Wed Jun 27 01:52:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:
>Release: current as of June 25th
>Organization:
EGNet
>Environment:
p3 Celeron 533mhz, 512MB ram, two ATA66 hard disks (dmesg output below)
System: NetBSD eros.endersgame.net 1.5W NetBSD 1.5W (EROS) #49: Tue Jun 26 22:26:13 EDT 2001 dive@eros.endersgame.net:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/EROS i386
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
With soft dependencies enabled on a drive, high amounts of disk
access can cause the machine to lock up completely.
>How-To-Repeat:
With /usr mounted with -o softdep, run a cvs update in /usr/pkgsrc
and one in /usr/xsrc at the same time,
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: