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Date:      Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:00:00 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Steve Price <sprice@hiwaay.net>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org, Alan Cox <alc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: processes hanging in 'objtrm' state
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909140958450.333-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.OSF.4.10.9909130829380.16136-100000@fly.HiWAAY.net>

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On Mon, 13 Sep 1999, Steve Price wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I have an Alpha box that spends much of its days and nights
> building packages for FreeBSD's ports collection.  Lately
> I've been noticing processes hanging in the 'objtrm' state.
> Anyone have some suggestions on what steps I might take in
> diagnosing this problem?  It is a GENERIC -current box from
> about 10 days ago.  The only change to the kernel config
> file was to add SOFTUPDATES.

These can be quite hard to track down. It seems that at least one place in
the kernel is not using the atomic_* macros for updating VM counters and
flags.

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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