Messages in this thread | | | From | thoth@purplefr ... | Subject | Re: Zombies Have Taken Over... | Date | Tue, 25 Mar 1997 11:55:57 EST |
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Michiel Boland <boland@diva.nl> ,in message <Pine.LNX.3.95.970325101800.31114B- 100000@napa.diva.nl>, wrote:
> Pete Harlan wrote: > > > Thank you all for your suggestions; it would appear that my init > > process had hung somehow > > Apparently newer versions of init do a sync() every once in a while. > This seems totally useless and even dangerous to me (system becomes > unusable if sync hangs).
I vaguely remember seeing this once (with strace -p 1). It definitely fits into the "bad" category.
--- Bob Forsman thoth@gainesville.fl.us http://www.gainesville.fl.us/~thoth/
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