Re: Softupdates Hangs 2.8-current (src 13Jan01)

[Saad Kadhi <Saad.Kadhi@neurocom.com>]

Hi there Kevin,

Kevin Sindhu wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I am runnning 2.8-current(cvs'd on Jan 13) and have softupdates enabled
> in the kernel and have tunefs'd my disk. Everytime I try to untar a big
> file(in this case qt-2.2.x), the system completely hangs. However the
> machine still replies to pings, but X/console are frozen. There is a lot
> of Disk activity and I did try to leave it like that for around 5 hours,
> which resulted in nothing fruitful, so I had no choice but to
> hard-reset, and then fsck in single user mode..
> 
> I have been to able to workaround this by disabling softupdates...
> 
> I would appreciate any hi.nts/advice and would be happy to provide
> dmesg/kernel options/test patches etc. Please let me know for the same
I've had a lot of troubles with my boxes after I enabled softupdates: 
hangups, crashes, ddb ...etc. And I couldn't track down the pb.

*l4me answer follows* My advice is to disable it if you don't really 
need it :(


Regards,

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