Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 14 Nov 1998 23:25:07 -0800 (PST) | From | Simon Kirby <> | Subject | Re: 2.1.128 Lock |
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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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