From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Mar 15 12:51:53 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id MAA29731 for hackers-outgoing; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:51:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id MAA29724 for ; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 12:51:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from sax.sax.de by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id VAA18864; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:51:30 +0100 Received: by sax.sax.de (8.6.11/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id VAA04586; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:51:30 +0100 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.4/8.6.9) id VAA02384; Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:47:12 +0100 (MET) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199603152047.VAA02384@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Locks. To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 21:47:12 +0100 (MET) Cc: adf@fl.net.au (Andrew Foster) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960316054937.00af3a00@mail.fl.net.au> from "Andrew Foster" at Mar 15, 96 07:49:37 pm X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Andrew Foster wrote: > This machine will either randomly reboot or lock up. When it locks I can > switch vty's but not login (no password comes up), I can open some ports > that inetd isn't control of, but I can't telnet in or anything. This usually means the processes aren't context-switching anymore. It is often related to disk hangs. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)