In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Peter Wemm writes:
>As you said, _sleeping_ is the problem. M_WAITOK means "you may sleep if >you like". ie: it is a time bomb waiting for the right low memory condition >which will then explode with a 100% authentic crash or lock up. > >Pretend it said M_SLEEPOK instead of M_WAITOK. Uhm, I'm actually seeing the opposite behaviour as well: after I changed the md(4) driver to use M_NOWAIT I still see malloc/zalloc sleeping... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message