Rich Neswold <[email protected]> writes: > Tom, what information are you looking for? I can provide details from my > machine, as well. I know some of the things you looked at didn't shed much > light.
Trouble is, I have no idea what I'm looking for. :) Right now, things are looking much better, though. I've done two things: I've made the change I mentioned recently, ensuring that more RAM is kept available, but I've also upgraded to a -current from November 30th, because I noticed that Masao Uebayashi had commited some changes that seemed to affect critical section locking, including files within /sys/uvm. The local change seemed to improve things quite a bit, but not entirely to fix the situation, but after upgrading to a newer -current, I seem to be able to load the server down with very heavy disk and network activity, with no ill effects. It's only been running with the upgraded kernel for a couple of days, so I'm not entirely trusting it yet, but I'm hopeful. -tih -- It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. -Richard Feynman
