>I'm experiencing strange hangs with a heavily used 2.0.5 machine.
>The symptom is dat during a run of /etc/daily, the system gets
>slower and slower and then sometimes reboots, sometimes hangs.
>We also saw panics, (free vnode isn't).
>I lately did a large find on a 2.0 machine and it rebooted. Because
>/etc/daily also contains a few large finds, I am suspecting the
>FS layer. Is anything known about a problem in there causing such
>behaviour?
There were some windows in the vnode allocation that could cause undesired
behavior. These were fixed a few days ago.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project