Re: Blocked process

2009-09-08 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Unfortunately the system is in Finland and I'm in Australia so I > can't sit at the console :( Someone visited the site and determined that the floppy drive cable was intermittently fouling the CPU fan. I believe this was causing the CPU to overheat

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Robert Watson wrote: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: > >> came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while > >> using /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for > >> the shell. You may also w

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-22 Thread Robert Watson
On Sat, 22 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while using /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for the shell. You may also want to check into whether something is trying to acquire

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-22 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Fri, 21 Aug 2009, CmdLnKid wrote: > came back or the machine was rebooted. I continued for a while using > /var/mail over NFS while setting or unset mail variables for the > shell. You may also want to check into whether something is trying to > acquire a lock on a file over that NFS mount which

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread CmdLnKid
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009 08:42 -, doconnor wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Kostik Belousov wrote: Things like ls on the console might take several seconds to respond when the box didn't seem to be very busy (but wasn't idle, maybe serving a little NFS). It wasn't the shell getting swapped out or any

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Kostik Belousov wrote: > > Things like ls on the console might take several seconds to respond > > when the box didn't seem to be very busy (but wasn't idle, maybe > > serving a little NFS). It wasn't the shell getting swapped out or > > anything else obvious. This was on SMP,

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Kostik Belousov
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 12:35:46PM +0100, Bob Bishop wrote: > > On 20 Aug 2009, at 12:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > >On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > >>On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote: > >>>On 20 Aug 2009, at 08:25, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > This is running in 6.2 ish using

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Bishop
On 20 Aug 2009, at 12:06, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote: On 20 Aug 2009, at 08:25, Daniel O'Connor wrote: This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression ULE wasn't very stable in 6.2. I could proba

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote: > > On 20 Aug 2009, at 08:25, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > > This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression > > > ULE wasn't very stable in 6.2. > > > > > > I could probably try it though... > > >

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote: > On 20 Aug 2009, at 08:25, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression > > ULE wasn't very stable in 6.2. > > > > I could probably try it though... > > Hmm. ISTR having similar problems around the 6.1-2 era. Yo

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Bishop
On 20 Aug 2009, at 08:25, Daniel O'Connor wrote: This is running in 6.2 ish using 4BSD, I was under the impression ULE wasn't very stable in 6.2. I could probably try it though... Hmm. ISTR having similar problems around the 6.1-2 era. You might try 6.4 if that's possible for you. -- Bob

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Daniel O'Connor
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Bob Bishop wrote: > Hi, > > On 20 Aug 2009, at 03:34, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > [...] > > The problem appears to now be that the userland process that reads > > data > > out of the kernel is being stalled for over 4 seconds. This process > > reads from the kernel and does some

Re: Blocked process

2009-08-20 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, On 20 Aug 2009, at 03:34, Daniel O'Connor wrote: [...] The problem appears to now be that the userland process that reads data out of the kernel is being stalled for over 4 seconds. This process reads from the kernel and does some minor processing and then writes it out to a child pro