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From: cgd@eden.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: wd stops on update
Date: 19 May 93 17:21:53
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil's message of 19 May 1993 08:53:51 -0500
In article <1tde5tINN6i@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:
>This means that every morning, I have to check and see what broke during the
>night.
on sun-lamp, we have the same problem, with /etc/daily generally
causing the machine to hang... this is with SCSI disks tho...
(i have one system with wd disks, but don't use it much. the
"hit the disk == hang" problem is a SCSI thing too, i think...)
>I have been running 386bsd since last fall, and NetBSD for the past month,
>and this is really starting to bug me.
perhaps you should trim some stuff out of daily?
it's useful, but as you've seen, can cause problems...
(yes, i know that's not the correct solution, but it's
a temporary one!)
>Could this have something to do with 'maxfdescs' from the config file? I
>first noticed it when the system was compiled using the default of 2048.
>I tried rebuilding a kernel using 512, and it is no different.
no, this wouldn't be the problem.
maxfdescs specifies how many file descriptors, max, a process
can have open. it's not the perfect fix (i.e. "sysctl")
but it works to fix several things, e.g. all of of the problems
(w/sendmail, bash, etc, etc, etc) which happened when run
"unlimit"ed...
chris
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Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass