What does this mean ?

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Fri May 13 08:14:10 PDT 2011


:	Hi,
:
:	Message on console not too frequent, possibly associated with heavy
:disk usage:
:
:thr_umtx_wait FAULT VALUE CHANGE 7162->7165 oncond 0x800990104
:
:	What does it mean, and should I worry ?
:
:-- 
:Steve O'Hara-Smith                          |   Directable Mirror Arrays

    No, it just means a block of memory being used for mutexes suffered
    from a copy-on-write (probably due to a fork()).  The mutex code
    in the kernel deals with this situation automatically.  It was just
    some old debugging cruft.

					Matthew Dillon 
					<dillon at backplane.com>





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