Subject: Re: softdep problems
To: None <fvdl@wasabisystems.com, lennart@mail.augustsson.net>
From: Lennart Augustsson <augustss@augustsson.net>
List: tech-kern
Date: 12/07/2000 11:38:03
Frank van der Linden <fvdl@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> > Is anyone working on trying fix the problems with softdep?
> > (There are a bunch of open PRs.)  I love the performance
> > improvement you get rom softdep, but the time gained there is
> > soon lost running fsck.  If I run softdep on my laptop it usually
> > only stays up for a day or two.
> 
> I have tried to look into them a last week, but the problem is
> reproducing the bug. I'm using softdeps on all my machines and
> have not had a problem in a long time. If you could collect a lot
> of data and post it (or make kernels + dumps available to some
> developers), we might be able to get a little further on this.

I'll try and make as many cores as I can.  Bugs have a way of
not occurring when you want to see them though, as we all know.

	-- Lennart