From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 22 05:20:04 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA09998 for bugs-outgoing; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:20:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id FAA09975; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:20:02 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Message-Id: <199608221220.FAA09975@freefall.freebsd.org> Resent-From: gnats (GNATS Management) Resent-To: freebsd-bugs Resent-Reply-To: FreeBSD-gnats@freefall.FreeBSD.org, dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (mmdf@salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id FAA09848 for ; Thu, 22 Aug 1996 05:16:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from synge.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id aa28383; 22 Aug 96 13:16 BST Message-Id: <9608221316.aa08671@synge.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Thu, 22 Aug 96 13:16:28 +0100 From: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie Reply-To: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org X-Send-Pr-Version: 3.2 Subject: kern/1531: Machine hangs, unable to either fork or exec. Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >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: