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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 11:58:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: Thor Clark <thor@tab012.tabula.com>
To: Geoff Mohler <gemohler@dyslexic.phoenix.net>
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Subject: Re: Problem.
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Had a very similar problem - the machine didn't panic, it just stopped 
creating new processes.  Processes currently running continued to run, 
and the machine responded to pings, but it would not create new processes 
for telnet, http, cron jobs, etc.  (I eventually had to resort to the cron 
reboot...)
It turned out to be a bug in 2.1 Release.  I upgraded to 2.1.5 (took 
about 40 minutes), and have been up with no problems for a 
week.  (I still see the 'rtq_reallyold' messages - they seem to happen in 
response to a particular type of load on the machine that often
triggered the bug)


Re update(if this is the same bug): make sure to back-up everything,   
particularly /etc. Though it is saved off to a tmp directory, I did lose 
some config files (sysconfig and a couple of others) along the way, and 
had to go to my backups. 

Thor Clark

On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Geoff Mohler wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Jul 1996, Garrett Wollman wrote:
> 
> > <<On Thu, 25 Jul 1996 18:54:42 -0500 (CDT), Geoff Mohler <gemohler@alpha1.phoenix.net> said:
> > 
> > > Can anyone tell me what this error means?
> > > /kernel: in_rtqtimo: adjusted rtq_reallyold to 2400
> >  
> > It's not an error, just an informational message.  The whole dynamic
> > expiration thing needs re-working, but I don't hold out any hope that
> > it will be soon.
> 
> Why does this seem to co-ordinate wo closely with the machine halting?
>  
> Currently, I have a cron that is booting the machine, every hour before 
> this 'timer' reaches bottom.  And havent had a problem since.
> 
> 
> Geoff Mohler
> Operations Engineer
> Charter Communications/
> Phoenix Data Net
>