RE: ``top'' and other process issues on 4.10-R

From: Doug White (dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com)
Date: 06/30/04

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    Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 18:24:46 -0700 (PDT)
To: Phillip Salzman <phill@sysctl.net>

    On Tue, 29 Jun 2004, Phillip Salzman wrote:

    > I've been able to reproduce it nearly every time I try to vi -- on machines
    > with HTT completely enabled also now too.
    >
    > Does anyone know of any tests that I could conduct which might help point a
    > finger at the culprit? I'm pretty much at a loss of idea's...

    Its in the tty code somewhere. It sometimes appears to me as vi dying in
    xterm.

    On the plus side, it hasn't done it to me on -stable in a long time, and
    never on -current :)

    >
    > Thanks,
    >
    > Phillip Salzman
    >
    >
    > > -----Original Message-----
    > > From: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
    > > stable@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Jonathan Chen
    > > Sent: June 28, 2004 5:11 PM
    > > To: Phillip Salzman
    > > Cc: stable@freebsd.org
    > > Subject: Re: ``top'' and other process issues on 4.10-R
    > >
    > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2004 at 04:59:35PM -0500, Phillip Salzman wrote:
    > > > Hello,
    > > >
    > > > I'm running a Dell 2650 2x3.2Ghz box with HTT disabled (the sysctl
    > > variable
    > > > hasn't been set, so the user procs aren't taking advantage of the
    > > logical
    > > > CPUs) & am seeing some rather strange issues with stdout processes.
    > > >
    > > > When I run a tail -f on my maillog (fairly active) I'm getting this
    > > > intermittently:
    > > >
    > > > tail: stdout: Unknown error: 0
    > > >
    > > > Also, vi doesn't seem to work anymore. It's giving me a ``Resource Not
    > > > Available'' error most of the time I'm using it.
    > >
    > > This problem has been around for at least 6 months, maybe longer.
    > > Unfortunately, it isn't readily reproducible, and thus difficult to
    > > report and fix. Not seeing it on our 4.10 boxes at the moment.
    > >
    > > Cheers.
    > > --
    > > Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz>
    > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
    > > "I don't want to achive immortality through my works..
    > > I want to achieve it through not dying" - Woody Allen
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