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Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 12:00:44 -0500
From: Bob McElrath <mcelrath+linux@draal.physics.wisc.edu>
To: Peter Rival <frival@zk3.dec.com>
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Subject: Re: Alpha "process table hang"
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Peter Rival [frival@zk3.dec.com] wrote:
> You wouldn't happen to have khttpd loaded as a module, would you?  I've s=
een
> this type of problem caused by that before...

Nope...

>=20
>  - Pete
>=20
> Bob McElrath wrote:
>=20
> > I've been experiencing a particular kind of hang for many versions
> > (since 2.3.99 days, recently seen with 2.4.1, 2.4.2, and 2.4.2-ac4) on
> > the alpha architecture.  The symptom is that any program that tries to
> > access the process table will hang. (ps, w, top) The hang will go away
> > by itself after ~10minutes - 1 hour or so.  When it hangs I run ps and
> > see that it gets halfway through the process list and hangs.  The
> > process that comes next in the list (after hang goes away) almost always
> > has nonsensical memory numbers, like multi-gigabyte SIZE.
> >
> > Linux draal.physics.wisc.edu 2.3.99-pre5 #8 Sun Apr 23 16:21:48 CDT 2000
> > alpha unknown
> >
> > Gnu C                  2.96
> > Gnu make               3.78.1
> > binutils               2.10.0.18
> > util-linux             2.11a
> > modutils               2.4.5
> > e2fsprogs              1.18
> > PPP                    2.3.11
> > Linux C Library        2.2.1
> > Dynamic linker (ldd)   2.2.1
> > Procps                 2.0.7
> > Net-tools              1.54
> > Kbd                    0.94
> > Sh-utils               2.0
> > Modules Loaded         nfsd lockd sunrpc af_packet msdos fat pas2 sound
> > soundcore
> >
> > Has anyone else seen this?  Is there a fix?
> >
> > -- Bob
> >
> > Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu)
> > Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics
> >
> >   ---------------------------------------------------------------------=
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-- Bob

Bob McElrath (rsmcelrath@students.wisc.edu)=20
Univ. of Wisconsin at Madison, Department of Physics

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