Re: Odd semi-freeze
Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Wed, 17 Jun 1998 12:43:44 +0100 (BST)
> > "starting sendmail: sendmail" line printed by the boot-sequence, my system
> > apparently hung for nearly a minute.
> Just happend again -- twice. The first time, it didn't seem to be coming
> out of it any time soon. I eventualy did sysrq-u,s,b and went for another
> go. Did it again, same spot. This time I got two addresses: c018e264 and
> c011184d. The first is apm_do_idle (+0x64), the second is schedule (+9).
Your machine is sleeping. Thats sendmail trying to do DNS lookups for all
its interfaces. The apm_do_idle is because the idle loop is busy (so to speak)
telling the bios "Im bored" "Im really bored" "There is like nothing happening"
so the BIOS can choose in the end to sleep
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