Brian Buhrow <buh...@nfbcal.org> wrote: > I have a number of machines running NetBSD-10.99.12/amd64 running on > real hardware and running as VM machines, mostly xen, but also as > guests on KVM. > Out of approximately 25 different instances, I have one Xen machine > where processes "hang". > The machine may run for a week before this happens, or it may run for > months. To try and figure out what is going wrong, I installed a kernel > with ddb in it and when the problem manifested itself, I discovered > processes and threads that look like:
[snip] > ... plus a ptyfs filesystem running in compatibility mode, > i.e. /dev/ttypx, rather than /dev/pts/*, which means it doesn't show up > as a filesystem at all. How did you mount this ptyfs? I thought that we either mount ptyfs under /dev/pts or use tratitional ptys, I did not know that there was some "compatibility mode" inbetween. Why not try this machine with a standard setup?
