Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 08:09:49 -0500 From: Don Bowman <don@sandvine.com> To: 'Sean Chittenden' <seanc@FreeBSD.org>, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: sysctl -a loops forever... Message-ID: <FE045D4D9F7AED4CBFF1B3B813C85337010231A2@mail.sandvine.com>
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From: Sean Chittenden [mailto:seanc@FreeBSD.org] > > Anyone seen sysctl -a loop forever? I haven't been able to track down > the MIB that it's gettinng hung up on, but it looks like there's a > flaw in the algo that is walking through the MIBs. Given that this > halts the machine while trying to collect entropy (sysctl -a is used > to help feed /dev/random) at system start up, I think it's something > worth addressing or pointing out. -sc I've observed this when e.g. I had too many nmbclusters configured, ie when vm.kvm_free was too low (0 in my case :) --don (don@sandvine.com www.sandvine.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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