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Re: 8.0C portnoy: panic: vn_rele vnode ref count 0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Tue Jul 23 11:07:21 1996

To: vrt@MIT.EDU
Cc: (Charles M. Hannum), John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>, testers@MIT.EDU,
        sipb-staff@MIT.EDU, afsdev@MIT.EDU
From: mycroft@MIT.EDU (Charles M. Hannum)
Date: 23 Jul 1996 11:07:02 -0400
In-Reply-To: vrt@MIT.EDU's message of Tue, 23 Jul 1996 10:54:49 EDT


vrt@MIT.EDU writes:

> 
> >opus 34# swap -l
> >lswap path         dev    pri swaplo   blocks     free  maxswap    vswap
> >    2 /swap/swap1
> >                 128,16     3      0        0        0        0   409600
> >    1 /dev/swap
> >                 128,17     0      0   304800   304800   304800        0
> 
> what is weird is that there should not be zeros for /swap/swap1.

Hey; it's your installation script.  B-)

> cato 3# swap -l
> lswap path         dev    pri swaplo   blocks     free  maxswap    vswap
>     2 /swap/swap1
>                  128,16     3      0   204800   204800   204800   204800
>     1 /dev/swap
>                  128,17     0      0   257496   257496   257496        0
> --vrt

opus 2# cd /swap
opus 3# ls -l
total 147
-rw-rw-r--    1 root     sys        74828 Jul 22  2026 core
-rw-------    1 root     sys            0 Jul 23 10:28 swap1
opus 4# swap -d /swap/swap1
opus 5# dd if=/dev/zero of=swap1 bs=1024k count=100
opus 6# swap -a /swap/swap1
opus 7# swap -l
lswap path         dev    pri swaplo   blocks     free  maxswap    vswap
    2 /swap/swap1
                 128,16     3      0   204800   204800   204800   204800
    1 /dev/swap
                 128,17     0      0   304800   291728   304800        0
opus 8# 

Given that there was already 150MB of swap space available, it's not
clear that this should make any difference, or that it wouldn't be
*more* disturbing if it did.

Lastly, I've noticed that something is frobbing the disk fairly
frequently even when I'm not doing anything.  I haven't yet determined
what's doing this.


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