From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 15 4:53:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from sand2.sentex.ca (sand2.sentex.ca [209.167.248.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D48214D1F for ; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 04:53:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from gravel (ospf-wat.sentex.net [209.167.248.81]) by sand2.sentex.ca (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id HAA19856; Thu, 15 Apr 1999 07:48:30 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Message-Id: <4.1.19990415075456.0422aa30@granite.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtancsa@granite.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.1 Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 07:58:25 -0400 To: Andy Farkas , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: vm problem? Cc: dillon@apollo.backplane.com In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11:37 PM 4/14/99 , Andy Farkas wrote: > >Is anyone else seeing this? > >On a 3.1-STABLE (Apr 14 1999) system, the following causes a vm lockup: > >$ find / -type f -exec grep zztop "{}" \; & >$ find / -type f -exec grep zztop "{}" \; & > >(ie. the same find command twice put in background... as a normal user) Unfortunately yes. There was a thread about it a few weeks ago. I get the impression that a lot needs to be changed in order to fix this and that the problem is not simple. Hopefully it will be sooner than later :-( See the thread Simple DOS against 3.x locks box solid. ---Mike ---Mike ********************************************************************** Mike Tancsa, Network Admin * mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications Corp, * http://www.sentex.net/mike Cambridge, Ontario * 01.519.651.3400 Canada * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message