From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 22 07:40:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id HAA26121 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 07:40:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from lirmm.lirmm.fr (lirmm.lirmm.fr [193.49.104.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA26105 for ; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 07:40:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from lirmm.fr (baobab.lirmm.fr [193.49.106.14]) by lirmm.lirmm.fr (8.7.1/8.6.4) with ESMTP id QAA26112; Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:38:40 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <199602221538.QAA26112@lirmm.lirmm.fr> To: bugs@freebsd.netcom.com, mpp@minn.net cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: re: processes wouldn't die Date: Thu, 22 Feb 1996 16:38:19 +0100 From: "Philippe Charnier" Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk 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. -------- -------- Philippe Charnier charnier@lirmm.fr LIRMM, 161 rue Ada, 34392 Montpellier cedex 5 -- France ------------------------------------------------------------------------