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Date:      Mon, 26 Jan 1998 05:20:32 -0600
From:      Randy Terbush <randy@covalent.net>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        brian@worldcontrol.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Cyclades/Hylafax/SMP select problems?
Message-ID:  <19980126052032B.randy@covalent.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 26 Jan 1998 05:14:28 -0500 (EST)" <199801261014.FAA00431@dyson.iquest.net>
References:  <199801261014.FAA00431@dyson.iquest.net>

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"John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> wrote:
> > > The Hylafax faxgetty and faxq processes spin out of control
> > > chewing up nearly 100% CPU. The same configuration ran without
> > > problems on a single P5 machine running 2.2-STABLE.
> > > 
> > > As I begin to dig deeper into this, are there any know problems
> > > with this mix?
> > 
> > Just thought you'd like to know you are not alone.  faxq on
> > my SMP system does the same thing.
> > 
> Sometimes the output of ktrace or truss can be useful.  Also the
> contents of /proc/<pid>/map sometimes helps with hints as to
> what is going on.

Seems that a change to open the FIFO O_RDWR solves the problem.
Apparently, select() is returning when it should not be. This
must be a new bug in select().








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