Re: Help needed with hangs associated with vfs locking

1999-03-23 Thread Greg Lehey
On Tuesday, 23 March 1999 at 8:00:10 +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote: > According to Greg Lehey: >> perform this kind of locking). I currently suspect that vinum acts as >> a catalyst by issuing disk multiple I/O requests in a very short space >> of time. > > I got two hanging processes too yesterda

Re: Help needed with hangs associated with vfs locking

1999-03-23 Thread Ollivier Robert
According to Greg Lehey: > perform this kind of locking). I currently suspect that vinum acts as > a catalyst by issuing disk multiple I/O requests in a very short space > of time. I got two hanging processes too yesterday. rnews was unbatching news and I had a grep on my news log. syslogd was lo

Help needed with hangs associated with vfs locking

1999-03-22 Thread Greg Lehey
A system I'm looking at continually runs into deadlocks when doing a 'make -j20 world'. This appears to happen only when the file system is mounted on a vinum volume, and it possibly also requires softupdates, though I haven't confirmed this yet. I initially thought that this was a vinum problem,