Hi managers,
OSF/1 V3.0B (358.78) though saw the same thing under V3.0 (347):
On our AlphaServer 2100 4/200, after some days uptime processes decide
to go into U (un-interuptable) mode, and can't be killed. This has a nasty
side effect that it seems to happen to wall, so:
a) can't wall to people, it just hangs after accepting the message
b) stuffs up shutdown, which waits for wall to terminate, which doesn't,
so you can't easily do a clean shutdown of the machine, let alone
warn the users
However after a reboot the system is fine, and wall is fine and there
isn't any weirdness.. It only seems to happen after a few days uptime.
Permissions seem normal enough - can't figure it out.
Also we see a large number of defunct processes... is this normal
or another quirk?
Should I call this in to DEC as a software bug, or is it 'known' ? it
seems kind of hard to prove...
-richard
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Received on Tue Jan 31 1995 - 03:15:42 NZDT