Re: Strange (deadlock?) when running ps(1) and top(1)

From: Peter Holm <peter_at_holm.cc> Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 18:47:07 +0100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:37:45 UTC

On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 11:32:54PM +0800, Xin LI wrote:
> Hello gang,
> 
> With a recently built kernel and world from -HEAD, I found that
> running ps(1) or top(1) can sometimes trigger some weird problem
> to cause the system to completely stop to respond. The situation

I'm looking in a loop in userland_sysctl():

        do {
            req2 = req;
            error = sysctl_root(0, name, namelen, &req2);
        } while (error == EAGAIN);

http://people.freebsd.org/~pho/stress/cons43.html

-- 
Peter Holm