Thanks to everyone for the quick response. It seems the memory leak is what was
causing the problem.
Ken Forward replied:
This may be related to the memory leak discussed
http://ftp.service.digital.com/patches/public/unix/v4.0d/kern_mod_40d.README
On Wed, 12 Jan 2000 scoates_at_resourcepartner.com wrote:
> I have a system running 4.0D patch kit 5 that keeps hanging. At the time the
> system becomes unresponsive it seems that all processes have died.
>
> A ps of the system right before it dies follows.
>
> UID PID PPID C STIME TTY TIME CMD
> root 0 0 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 1 0 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 3 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 22 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> bclauter 33 32758 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 51 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 90 741 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 135 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 137 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 288 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 335 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 343 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 348 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 350 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 352 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 354 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 357 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 359 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 365 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 469 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 488 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 534 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 557 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 558 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 559 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 598 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 636 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 664 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 715 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 728 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 741 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 751 715 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 821 715 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 856 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 857 821 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 18159 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 18221 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 20319 598 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 28260 18159 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 31195 1 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 32594 33 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 32710 741 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 32738 32710 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> bclauter 32758 636 0.0 - ?? 0:00.00 <defunct>
> root 1489 1 0.0 - console 0:00.00 <defunct>
> scoates 20324 20319 0.0 - ttyp1 0:00.00 <defunct>
>
Received on Wed Jan 12 2000 - 15:01:11 NZDT