Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Fri, 13 Dec 1996 09:27:01 +0200 (SAT) | From | Louis Mandelstam <> | Subject | Re: ps -axf core dump strangeness |
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On Thu, 12 Dec 1996, Greg Alexander wrote:
> It's a bug in ps. The "state" is when you have more than 64 processes > loaded, most likely. cat /proc/loadavg. it should have a pair of numbers > like 2/31 31 is the number of processes you have, 2 is the number that > are active right now. I suspect you'll find a pattern to these numbers > when your ps is not working.
Tested it, and yes, the problem comes and goes reliably following /proc/loadavg
Looked for, found, and installed a fixed procps from the RedHat devel directory, and my problem is fixed.
Thanks a stack.
The daemon dying problem needs further looking into - I'll post again when I have more to say about it.
One correspondent has suggested it being related to APM, I have my doubts but if the opportunity for some downtime comes around I'll look into that.
Regards
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