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Re: vnode_pager.c patch needs testing


From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 22:03:40 -0700 (PDT)

:G'day Mate
:
:On 8/10/07, Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> wrote:
:>     This patch to vnode_pager.c needs some serious testing.  It's part
:>     of the userfs work I am doing.  To test, do something that accesses a
:>     lot of files and causes a lot of paging to occur.  Testing in a vkernel
:>     is fine.
:
:Testing your patch inside vkernel I got the following panic. To cause
:a lot of paging to occur I was checking out the src tree from local
:repository inside a vkernel.
:
:mode = 041777, inum = 2813, fs =
:panic: ffs_valloc: dup alloc
:Trace beginning at frame 0x5e1a68a0

    It's unrelated but it is a bug that has been reported off and on for
    years.  If I can reproduce it in a vkernel I may be able to finally
    track it down.

    What vkernel config did you use with regards to the memory size
    specified and the size of the virtual disk(s) ?

						-Matt



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