Re: 2.9-stable system freeze

[<alex@unixdot.com>]

Hi,

I read the bug report already, thanks anyway (-:

I'll try to determine if any programs make use of
that db3 lib in the next few days or maybe try to
find anything else that can cause the freeze.

Please note that my freeze-up occured after an
uptime of more than thirty days, has never occurred
before and hasn't occurered ever since.

> > 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...

	---Alex.