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From: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Process wedge in 'inode'
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If you can make a kernel from the same sources as that one,
then  doig it with -g
and gdb -k newkernel /dev/mem 
will allow you to examine th s process structs etc.
of those  processes
even without the -g kernel, you might be able
to get somewhere if you can find
teh address of 'allproc' as  a start point.

On Sun, 4 Jan 1998, Mike Smith wrote:

> 
> Just simultaneously checking out two copies of the kernel source using
> 'cvs co sys', I have an interesting situation:
> 
> kingsford:~>ps axlwww
>   UID   PID  PPID CPU PRI NI   VSZ  RSS WCHAN  STAT  TT       TIME COMMAND
>  1000  1359  1348   1 -14  0  1356  864 inode  D+    v1    0:06.84 cvs co sys
>  1000  1366   160   4 -14  0  1356  812 inode  D+    v2    0:06.77 cvs co sys
> 
> Neither process is responding to signals, and neither can be killed.  
> The rest of the system is running as normal...
> 
> This is -current as of 971220.
> -- 
> \\  Sometimes you're ahead,       \\  Mike Smith
> \\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
> \\  The race is long, and in the  \\  msmith@freebsd.org
> \\  end it's only with yourself.  \\ 
> 
> 
>