WITNESS & RELENG_6

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Wed Jan 3 21:52:29 UTC 2007


On Wednesday 03 January 2007 09:18, Eugene Grosbein wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I try to find bugs in 6.2-PRERELEASE by using it (q) :-)
> The question is: are kernel options WITNESS/WITNESS_KDB expected
> to be in usable kernel? I don't worry about performance overhead here.
> 
> The problem is, I've found this is nearly impossible to run
> my home system with RELENG_6 build from yesterday's sources,
> X.org 6.9.0, mplayer etc. without panicing and crashdump generation
> after an hour or so. Just switch from X to vty and logon gave me another
> LOR and crashdump. One of these you can see here:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=kern/107455
> 
> Perhaps, I should not use these options for everyday STABLE use?
> 
> Eugene

I think you are running into devfs bugs actually.

-- 
John Baldwin


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