Re: occational system lock up in 6.0_BETA and 6.99.5

[Thor Lancelot Simon <tls%panix.com@localhost>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 09:36:27AM +0200, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo wrote:
> Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost> writes:
> 
> > As D'Arcy I had a lock up on i386 too.
> 
> NetBSD/amd64 is hanging itself up during heavy loads, too - there are
> several reports on this currently being discussed on port-amd64.  In my
> case, at least, it's obviously related to heavy disk I/O, as everything
> else continues to work, but every process that tries to access disk gets
> stuck in biowait.  I'm running a very current amd64-current.

Make it more -current; a fix for one problem of this kind was checked in
over the weekend.

Thor