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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel!munnari.oz.au!uunet!europa.asd.contel.com!darwin.sura.net!wupost!sdd.hp.com!nigel.msen.com!caen!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!terra2!osynw From: osynw@terra2.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams) Subject: Re: 386BSD - multiple /sbin/init's in process list, solution ? Message-ID: <1992Sep17.210029.4170@coe.montana.edu> Keywords: 386BSD /sbin/initn Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University References: <1578@hcshh.hcs.de> Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1992 21:00:29 GMT Lines: 32 In article <1578@hcshh.hcs.de> hm@hcshh.hcs.de (Hellmuth Michaelis) writes: >i (re-) tried to install the /sbin/init program from the original 0.1 >distribution in various patched levels. > >all types of init's showed multiples of itself (ca. 10..15) in the >process list, constantly killing (disappearing) init's from lower pid's >and forking new ones with higher pid's. > >so i have constantly 10-15 init's running, with constantly incementing >process id's (and an increased "background load" ...) > >everything else is fine, multi- and single user mode works and /etc/rc >is properly executed. > >has someone an idea why, and has this problem already been solved ? > Hmm, I just checked (logged in from my 386BSD box), and I only have 1 init using ps. However, my load is running around .3 -> .4 with only kermit and screen running, so maybe I am not seeing them. I have most of the init patches installed, so *I* don't think it's related to init. Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | A hacker w/out a home. work: (406) 994-5991 | Keeper of the Unofficial 386BSD Bug Report home: (406) 586-0579 | Please send bugs and/or fixes you find.