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Date:      Sat, 16 Oct 1999 10:41:27 +0200 (CEST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson)
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: hanging buildworld?
Message-ID:  <199910160841.KAA16352@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910152219290.91859-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "Oct 15, 1999 10:21: 0 pm"

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As Doug Rabson wrote ...
> On Fri, 15 Oct 1999, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> > The process sitting there is the one in 'objtrm' , cpp at pid 10569. 
> > The machine itself keeps running just fine. 
> > 
> > Has anybody else ever seen this? This is sort-of repeatable on my NoName.
> 
> I think other people have reported similar problems. There must be a place
> in the VM/VFS where a counter is being updated without using the atomic
> macros. I'll talk to Matt about it at the conference.

OK, I'm not alone then :) It also happened a couple of times already that
a process (in this case csh and once also vgrind) went into a infinite loop.
This was on a different Alpha box BTW, but with the same -current src tree.
Could this be a manifestation of the same basic cause?

Wilko
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