Re: 2.9-stable system freeze

[Brian Boonstra <boonstb@cmg.FCNBD.COM>]

Alex

> When I was working remotely on my system (a mysql
> commandline session), it suddenly froze, more or
> less.

I recently started a thread on the tech list about a similar problem.   
Thierry Deval and Heikki Korpela said:

>  > Please see:  > >
>  http://cvs.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/wwwgnats.pl/full/1983
>
>  And a temporary fix would be to comment out the following
>  code block in /sys/kern/vfs_bio.c, function getnewbuf
>  (around line 865):  #if 0
>  		if ((numcleanbufs <= locleanbufs) &&
>  		curproc != syncerproc) {
>  		.....
>  		}
>  #endif
>
>  beware, that in -current, the code has changed (since
>  2.9) but the fix is still valid...
>
>  T.