Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 22:14:59 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: gibbs@plutotech.com (Justin T. Gibbs) Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible problem with wait syscall handling... Message-ID: <199809262214.PAA23583@usr04.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199809262003.OAA06853@pluto.plutotech.com> from "Justin T. Gibbs" at Sep 26, 98 01:57:16 pm
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> Ken started up a buildworld on our Miata last night, but perhaps 40 > minutes later, the machine started locking up. Ping worked, but > old network connections were frozen and new network connections blocked > after the initial connection. When I came in today and dropped into DDB, > I found that almost every process on the box was sleeping on "wait". > I continued and broke back into DDB two or three more times and suddenly > the machine un-froze. Very bizarre. Assuming I can reproduce this, > anyone have any ideas where I should start poking around to determine > the cause? Make sure you apply the recent VM patches; I believe ld uses mmap. There is also a "hack patch" from Matt Dillon to unset a bit if a bit combination that shouldn't have occurred occurs. This stabilizes things considerably. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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