From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Jun 16 00:44:40 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id AAA28142 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:44:40 -0700 Received: from aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw ([140.109.40.248]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id AAA28136 for ; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 00:44:37 -0700 Received: (from taob@localhost) by aries.ibms.sinica.edu.tw (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA00378; Fri, 16 Jun 1995 15:42:45 +0800 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 1995 15:42:45 +0800 (CST) From: Brian Tao To: "Rashid Karimov." cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 2.0.5R - misterious lockups (--MARK--?) In-Reply-To: <199506160312.XAA12350@haven.ios.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 15 Jun 1995, Rashid Karimov. wrote: > > Hi there folx, > - I have a root logged in on the console (just in case), > and when the system locks up , root can type commands on > the prompt ( w/o them being executed though) , switch the consoles, > and when you press Enter - the screen actually goes up. But > that's the only response you can get from the system > > - telnet/ftp from remote hosts reply "connected" and just > sit there forever > > - ping from remote hosts work just fine > > - and ( The Mistery ) - there is strange message -- MARK -- > in the /var/log/messages a few times before the system actually > stops accepting the connections .... I get the same behaviour you mention in your first three points, but not the "-- MARK --" syslog message. This behaviour is reproducible when using NCSA httpd 1.4 with 50+ simultaneous connections and 15+ requests per second. I'm not running quotas on my system, although NFS filesystems are heavily used. -- Brian ("Though this be madness, yet there is method in't") Tao taob@gate.sinica.edu.tw <-- work ........ play --> taob@io.org