Re: 2.2.0-pre9 blow up

Arvind Sankar (arvinds@mit.edu)
Mon, 25 Jan 1999 22:07:07 -0500

On Mon, Jan 25, 1999 at 07:20:04PM -0700, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
>
> Hi. Just had a strange thing happen to my main machine today.
> It had been happily running 2.2.0-pre9, and then for some unknown
> reason I noticed that the load was climbing into the sky...
>
> Lots and lots of things were getting into " D " (disk wait) state, and
> not coming back. It looked like anything that tried to exit, was just
> not doing so. I quit my netscape and it just sat there in "D" and
> wouldn't free up it's memory.

dunno if this is related, but I notice that on my machine, while shutting
down, lots of daemons take a long time to die. i.e. when the daemon stop
is run, they get a SIGTERM, but they take too long to die, and the script
has to SIGKILL them. It isn't too slow: a lot of them die in the 3 sec
interval before the KILL, but on 2.1.132, they used to die in the 0.1 sec
that the script waited after sending the SIGTERM. Net result is that it takes
a huge amount of time to shutdown.

Sys is redhat 5.2 with 2.2.0pre9.

-- arvind

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