On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 07:18:22AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 09:58:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > One of the alpha package machines seems to have deadlocked; no > > processes are running, but the kernel itself responds to pings, and I > > can break to DDB: > > How long have you waited? > It seems that the system was busy waiting for page faults and swap. > I've seen conditions lately where this can block the system for a very > long time in case there is not enough memory free. > The number of processes point to memory stress. It's been about 1/2 hour now...this machine doesn't seem to have been under exceptional load compared to the other equivalent alpha package machines > I asume you had no chance to take a lock at the disk lights? No, the machine is remote to me. Kris
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