Blocked process

[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 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.
>>
>> Someone is going to visit it, but if I can't solve it remotely I'll
>> probably just update it to 7.2 or so.
>
> What sort of problems did you have BTW?

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, not using X. The problem went  
away with 6.4R (had to stay with 6.x for unrelated reasons).

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Bob Bishop
rb at gid.co.uk