Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 17:08:38 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: "Brian C. Grayson" <bgrayson@orac.ece.utexas.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: a.out and disk-wait hangs Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9811091708050.3471-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <19981105022812.A8060@orac.ece.utexas.edu>
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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
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