From owner-freebsd-smp Sat Apr 4 22:42:05 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA02884 for freebsd-smp-outgoing; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:42:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (spinner.netplex.com.au [202.12.86.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA02850; Sat, 4 Apr 1998 22:41:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from peter@netplex.com.au) Received: from spinner.netplex.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by spinner.netplex.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8/Spinner) with ESMTP id OAA06265; Sun, 5 Apr 1998 14:41:14 +0800 (WST) (envelope-from peter@spinner.netplex.com.au) Message-Id: <199804050641.OAA06265@spinner.netplex.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: smp@FreeBSD.ORG cc: phk@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: more SMP stuff Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 14:41:14 +0800 From: Peter Wemm Sender: owner-freebsd-smp@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I was curious about why cron was failing and tested to see what a manual SIGALRM did to cron in nanosleep to test the suspicion that signals were a problem: root@beast[2:36pm]~-103# ps -axl | grep cron 0 152 1 0 10 0 948 576 nanslp Is ?? 0:00.03 cron 0 275 245 3 -6 0 912 492 piperd S+ p0 0:00.02 grep cron root@beast[2:36pm]~-104# kill -ALRM 152Read from remote host beast: Operation timed out Connection to beast closed. ============= exit status 255 ============= ============= Sun Apr 5 14:37:48 WST 1998 ============= >>> ssh -l root beast Last login: Sun Apr 5 13:39:36 1998 from spinner.netplex. Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT (BEAST) #140: Sat Apr 4 23:02:16 WST 1998 Welcome to FreeBSD! You have new mail. Erase is backspace. root@beast[2:37pm]~-100# Hmm... interesting... Cheers, -Peter -- Peter Wemm Netplex Consulting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-smp" in the body of the message