Date: Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:41:27 +0200 (CEST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: hanging buildworld? Message-ID: <199910160841.KAA16352@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910152219290.91859-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Oct 15, 1999 10:21: 0 pm"
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As Doug Rabson wrote ... > On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > The process sitting there is the one in 'objtrm' , cpp at pid 10569. > > The machine itself keeps running just fine. > > > > Has anybody else ever seen this? This is sort-of repeatable on my NoName. > > I think other people have reported similar problems. There must be a place > in the VM/VFS where a counter is being updated without using the atomic > macros. I'll talk to Matt about it at the conference. OK, I'm not alone then :) It also happened a couple of times already that a process (in this case csh and once also vgrind) went into a infinite loop. This was on a different Alpha box BTW, but with the same -current src tree. Could this be a manifestation of the same basic cause? Wilko -- | / o / / _ Arnhem, The Netherlands - Powered by FreeBSD - |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte WWW : http://www.tcja.nl http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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