Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:38:19 +0100 From: "Philippe Charnier" <charnier@lirmm.fr> To: bugs@freebsd.netcom.com, mpp@minn.net Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: re: processes wouldn't die Message-ID: <199602221538.QAA26112@lirmm.lirmm.fr>
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me:
>> 11143 root -18 0 476K 12K lockrd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ps
>> 11154 root -18 0 476K 12K lockrd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% ps
>> 10967 root -18 0 208K 12K lockrd 0:00 0.00% 0.00% rpc.rstatd
Mark Hittinger:
>I'm seeing this problem also. I believe that the 'ps' processes are hung
>trying to read something out of swap space. It feels like a deadlock
>condition to me.
>Philippe, could you tell us about your hardware configuration and what sort
>of software packages you run on that box?
Hardware:
486dx50 16MB
2 parallel, 2 serial (1450), 1 serial (1550A)
2 ide disks on VLB
1 scsi disk + 1 tandberg scsi streamer on 1542CF on ISA
1 mitsumi 2x cdrom on mitsumi card on ISA
1 ET4000 on VLB
no network
Software:
FreeBSD-current (kernel with -O, others with -O2 -m486) obtained from cvs
Xfree-3.1.2-S compiled from sources (15 days ago)
Fvwm pre2 pl 40
xclock
xterms
emacs
xsystats compiled from ports
top compiled from ports (before latest changes)
Mike Pritchard:
>Are you running "pppd" on your machine? I just tracked down a the same
>type of hang on my machine, and determined that something in the kernel
>mode PPP was trashing the swap list somehow.
The kernel is maybe ready to run ppp but I never used it, so pppd is
not started.
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Philippe Charnier charnier@lirmm.fr
LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5 -- France
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