From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 3 23:19:31 1996 Return-Path: owner-current Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id XAA08904 for current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:19:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de ([141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA08839 for ; Sun, 3 Mar 1996 23:18:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA03145 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:18:44 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA03447; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 08:18:54 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id SAA06125; Sat, 2 Mar 1996 18:00:16 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603021700.SAA06125@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: processes wouldn't die (again) To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Date: Sat, 2 Mar 1996 18:00:15 +0100 (MET) Cc: charnier@lirmm.fr In-Reply-To: <199603010742.IAA28576@lirmm.lirmm.fr> from "Philippe Charnier" at Mar 1, 96 08:42:24 am X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-current@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Philippe Charnier wrote: > I didn't upgrade to current for a week to see if I can reproduce the bug. > installing float.h floatingpoint.h stdarg.h varargs.h > ===> rpcsvc > cd /usr/src/include/rpcsvc ; rpcgen -h yp.x -o /usr/src/include/rpcsvc/obj/yp.h ... > stopped for more than an hour, system is still alive and top reports: > 90 daemon 2 0 176K 0K select 0:00 0.00% 0.00% > 717 root -6 0 152K 200K piperd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% tee ^^^^^^ > 1754 root -20 0 480K 136K subpro 0:00 0.00% 0.00% sh You're suffering from a kernel with broken pipe code. Upgrade it. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)