sysctl spinning (was: Re: ps Causes Hard Hang) (fwd)

[Don Lewis]

On  4 Mar, Cy Schubert wrote:
> So far so good, the problem appears to be fixed. I'll leave it in 
> production tonight. If I have any fallout tonight, I'll notify you tomorrow 
> morning.

I'm somewhat suprised that you haven't seen any other signs of breakage.
I'd expect to see either some sysctl calls that fail with an ENOMEM
error, or the continuation of the looping problem, depending on which
limit gets hit first.