Hi everyone:
One of our DEC alpha suffered from endless forking. Here is a
description of the problem:
* DEC alpha 250 4/266, 64MB memory, running DU 3.2c
* vmstat reported only a few hunder free memory pages (8K each page)
right after the system is rebooted
* an average load of about 0.5, although no user program is running
* "monitor -magnify fork" reported about 16 forks/sec, and 641554 forks
since last night (!).
* lpd was the only processing running. After I de-queued the printer,
forking stopped right away, and system load droped to 0.00 .
Is this a known problem with lpd on Digital Unix? Any fix?
Thanks a lot;
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Wei Wu
Supervisor, Scientific Computing
Washington University, Campus Box 1105
St. Louis, MO 63130, USA
phone (1)314-935-4746
fax (1)314-935-6219
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Received on Wed Mar 06 1996 - 18:11:26 NZDT