The following script reliably causes FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT (and 3.1-STABLE as of today) to lookup. Shortly after this script is started, all disk activity
stops and any attempt to create new process causes system to freese. While in DDB, ps command shows, that all ten fgrep processes are sleeping on inode, all xargs are in waitpid and all sh processes are in wait. Unfortunately, I cannot run -g kernel on my box at this time, so amount of useful information I can provide is pretty much limited :( #!/bin/sh for j in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10; do echo -n $i $j nohup sh -c 'while :; do find /usr -type f | xargs fgrep zukabuka; done' \ >/dev/null 2>&1 & echo done To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message