fork wedging (I think)

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Thursday 01 March 2007 17:35, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > in /rescue and use './sysctl' (and other commands in rescue).  I think
> > you will still be able to execute static executables in the current
> > directory vis a relative path even if the FS is deadlocked.  (As long
> > as your shell isn't trying to write command history to a file).
>
> hmm.. I will see if I can maintain an open shell.. Going to be a PITA given
> the length of time between failures.

I just logged in OK as it's done it again.

Unfortunately it has a version of ATARAID which doesn't support crash dumps.

Argh.

I was incrementally dumping sysctl trees and when I got to vm it hung..

eureka:~>sysctl vm
load: 0.07  cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k
load: 0.07  cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k
load: 0.07  cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k
load: 0.05  cmd: sysctl 72864 [user map] 0.00u 0.00s 0% 852k

I tried to reboot in another window but..
eureka:~>reboot
load: 0.06  cmd: csh 71159 [allproc] 0.03u 0.00s 0% 4652k

I am pondering an update to at least the ATA sub system so I can generate a 
crash dump though.

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