Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:00:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> To: Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Alan Cox <alc@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: processes hanging in 'objtrm' state Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909140958450.333-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9909130829380.16136-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>
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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Steve Price wrote: > Hi all, > > I have an Alpha box that spends much of its days and nights > building packages for FreeBSD's ports collection. Lately > I've been noticing processes hanging in the 'objtrm' state. > Anyone have some suggestions on what steps I might take in > diagnosing this problem? It is a GENERIC -current box from > about 10 days ago. The only change to the kernel config > file was to add SOFTUPDATES. These can be quite hard to track down. It seems that at least one place in the kernel is not using the atomic_* macros for updating VM counters and flags. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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