From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Nov 9 17:08:57 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA18355 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:08:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.144.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA18349 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:08:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA22004; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:08:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:08:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: "Brian C. Grayson" cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a.out and disk-wait hangs In-Reply-To: <19981105022812.A8060@orac.ece.utexas.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 5 Nov 1998, Brian C. Grayson wrote: > If I try to run an a.out version of Netscape on a 3.0-RELEASE > box, it hangs after a second or two in getblk. Can't say I can coroborate that. Netscape works fine on my CURRENT box. > Other (non-a.out) processes are highly likely to get permanently stuck > in disk-wait (D from top and ps's point of view) after this, leading > to a fairly wedged system pretty quick. The jobs don't respond to > kill -9 or ^Z or ^C. Sounds like a dying disk. What type of disk? Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message