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SubjectRe: 2.1.128 Lock
On Sun, 15 Nov 1998, Michael H. Warfield wrote:

> Simon Kirby enscribed thusly:
> > A very similar thing happened to me, running stock 2.1.128. I was
> > compiling Mozilla when "make" seemed to suddenly hang and do nothing...I
> > tried to spawn a new rxvt to login to see what was happening, and it
> > didn't pop up. I tried a few more times and nothing came up. I switched
> > to console where I had an irc session running...I could still type and
> > everything seemed to be okay, but when I tried to login to a console it
> > took about 10 seconds before spitting out the "uptime" and then another 10
> > seconds or so before giving me a prompt. During this time the disk was
> > almost unused. This looks like exactly what happened with 2.1.127ac1 when
> > I put it on the mail server machine after 10 minutes of uptime (heavy
> > load). The number of new running processes kept rising and rising (POP3
> > logins), and new processes seemed "blocked" (although nothing was shown as
> > blocked in "vmstat" which was running at the time). I rebooted the
> > mail server because it needed to be up _asap_, but my machine at home here
> > which just the problem seemed to fix itself after about 30 seconds.
>
> A number of us are experiencing similar problems. One burning
> question I have for everyone who has experienced this... Was the kernel
> built with SMP disabled? There are at least three other threads relating
> to this problem. So far, everyone who has gotten back to me claims that
> they built with SMP disabled. If anyone is experiencing this with SMP
> enabled, even on a uniprocessor box, that would disprove the theory.
> I would also like others who are experiencing this with SMP disabled to
> rebuild with SMP enabled and try again...

All UP (non-SMP)...

Simon-

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