On Mon, Nov 14, 2005 at 06:08:27PM -0800, Rob wrote: > I left it overnight twice for performing this > 'kernel linking' stage. In both cases the machine > remained dead. > Without the swapfile, this 'kernel linking' stage > completes in just about less than a minute. > > So I think it's not my impatience, but there is > another problem with my swapfile or with 6 :).
Since you can compile a kernel without it, add DDB, WITNESS and INVARIANTS support, then trigger the deadlock with the swapfile, break to DDB and examine the state of the machine. See the chapter on kernel debugging in the developers handbook for more instructions. Kris
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