Exactly what changes were made to the MM between 2.0.29
and 2.0.30? The problem (and solution) may lie there. Now
that I'm thinking about it, I may try to back out changes in
mm/, kernel/ and arch/i386/ with a clean 2.0.30 tomorrow. We
could really use the networking fixes/ enhancements (SYN
cookies come to mind...).
Christoph Lameter wrote:
>
> I am beginning to see a pattern here. Similar things happened on a busy
> ISP box with lots of processes hanging in the D state. Two other boxes
> running 2.0.30 terminate programs with segfaults under high load
> (One of them is the exploder for the .com domain of this list ....)
>
> 2.0.29 seems to do fine on another 2 servers.
>
> On Wed, 30 Apr 1997 thoth@purplefrog.com wrote:
>
> >
> > I'm experiencing wedged processes while using NCP-mounted directories under
> > 2.0.30. 2.0.29-ISS on another machine does not have these problems.
> >
> > root 978 0.0 0.5 900 80 ? D 16:30 0:00 (ls)
> > root 29615 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? SW 11:00 0:00 (ls)
> > root 29732 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 11:10 0:00 (ls)
> > root 29837 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 11:20 0:00 (ls)
> > root 29941 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 11:30 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30046 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 11:40 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30158 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 11:50 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30274 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 12:00 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30388 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 12:10 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30500 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 12:20 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30618 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 12:30 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30727 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 12:40 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30836 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 12:50 0:00 (ls)
> > root 30942 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 13:00 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31058 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 13:10 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31163 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 13:20 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31271 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 13:30 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31381 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 13:40 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31491 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 13:50 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31597 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 14:00 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31716 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 14:10 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31836 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 14:20 0:00 (ls)
> > root 31948 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 14:30 0:00 (ls)
> > root 32082 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 14:40 0:00 (ls)
> > root 32190 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 14:50 0:00 (ls)
> > root 32319 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 15:00 0:00 (ls)
> > root 32451 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 15:10 0:00 (ls)
> > root 32565 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 15:20 0:00 (ls)
> > root 32700 0.0 0.0 900 0 ? DW 15:30 0:00 (ls)
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