Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 13:16:28 +0100 From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: kern/1531: Machine hangs, unable to either fork or exec. Message-ID: <9608221316.aa08671@synge.maths.tcd.ie> Resent-Message-ID: <199608221220.FAA09975@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 1531 >Category: kern >Synopsis: Machine hangs, unable to either fork or exec. >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Thu Aug 22 05:20:00 PDT 1996 >Last-Modified: >Originator: David Malone >Organization: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland. >Release: FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386 >Environment: FreeBSD-STABLE, supped after 2.1.5-RELEASE. 120MHz Pentium , 64MB Ram, 2*2940 SCSI controlers, S3 video card, SMC Etherpower 10Mb/s ethernet. Disks are moderatly busy with a news feed. >Description: Twice the machine has hung, so that existing processes contiune but no more seem to start. I couldn't determine if it was forking or execing that wasn't working. >How-To-Repeat: Happened once just as I began to run SATAN on the machine, once just after someone ran "gimp" a graphics package. May or may not be related. >Fix: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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