The state of DragonFly and pkgsrc 2008Q4

[Matthew Dillon]

:I crashed his system with my last build, but that was probably because it
:was a slightly older version of Hammer.

    Those builds are wringing out the last few bugs in HAMMER.  Nothing
    earth shattering, mostly kmalloc/too-many-inodes related and that
    sort of thing.  The builds also found a race in one of the CRC checks
    which caused a panic but no on-media corruption.

    It's nice that we are now taking for granted that machine crashes
    don't mess up HAMMER's on-media state :-)

    I also found that HAMMER's default cleanup options with its 
    5-minute-a-night pruning can't keep up with the workload on pkgbox.
    I upped it to 40 minutes a day and it did better, but it still couldn't
    keep up.  I am trying to bracket it so I have it set to 2 hours
    a day now to see if that does the job.  Clearly 2 hours a day is not
    desireable but I'm getting excellent data points on the issue.

    In anycase, I fix the crashes as they come up and pkgbox seems to
    be stable now.  Keep building!

					-Matt
					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>