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From: j@narcisa.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 2.0-RELEASE Disk Wait Hang?
Date: 2 Jun 1995 09:43:16 +0200
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Pete Davis <pete@millenium.tiac.net> wrote:
>I have a FreeBSD machine running 2.0-RELEASE. The machine stopped accepting
>telnet connections and had many processes stuck in "D" (under ps -auxw)
>disk wait mode. What would cause the normal system programs (i.e. pagedaemon)
>to get stuck in this mode and never come out?
While i suspect it has been fixed meanwhile, just a hint: the WCHAN
column of a ps -alx is (unlike with any other system than 4.4BSD based
ones) now of much more interest than the flags.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)