Quoting Kris Kennaway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On February 21 -- that is over 2 months ago -- I sent email to this
list containing a fix for the quota deadlocks that were known at the
time. I got minimal response from users, but it was uniformly
positive. The fix was committed, and the status of the "quota
deadlocks" item on the 6.1-RELEASE todo list was changed from "must
fix" to "believed fixed, please test".
The next I heard about the problem was about a week ago when someone
reported another deadlock and several others chimed in with "oh yeah,
it still deadlocks for me too".
Well, sorry folks, you should have told me in February. Or if you
only found out about the problem a week ago, you need to recognize
that problems raised at the last minute cannot always be fixed
instantly.
I was one of those others who said "me too". :-)
Although I subscribe to every FreeBSD mailing list, I usually just
glance over all of the subject lines until something catches my eye.
So, unfortunately, I apparently missed that whole bit and it wasn't
until a particular subject caught my eye recently that I thought it
might be addressing the same problem I had. I hadn't mentioned the
problem to the lists before because I had zero diagnostic information
about it and it was a production box that I couldn't fool around with
too much, so I had found a workaround (daily reboot) a long time ago
and didn't think much more about it. Although I recently compiled the
kernel with various debug options (WITNESS, DDB, etc.), it takes days
for it to recur (without daily reboots) and when it hanged again a
couple of nights ago, I completely forgot about trying to break into
the debugger and rebooted the box anyway. *slaps forehead* And of
course it hasn't happened again, yet. Maybe next time.
I'll be happy when we figure out what the problem is and find a fix
for it, it doesn't matter to me whether or not it makes it into the
6.1 release.
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