[2929] in testers
Re: emacs 19.30.1
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Jun 16 12:36:26 1996
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1996 12:36:20 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
To: David K Krikorian <dkk@MIT.EDU>
Cc: testers@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: "[2845] in testers"
> The worst part of the problem was that the machine was thoroughly
> hosed during the beeping. I noticed that inetd died, keypresses
> were taking up to a minute to echo (though the pointer position
> responded normally to mouse movement), "/usr/ucb/ps ax" didn't find
> any processes. It's amazing how one application can bring a Solaris
> system to its knees.
Just a few notes: "/usr/ucb/ps ax" wouldn't find any processes anyway,
since it had the wrong ownership up until last night. Keypresses will
take a minute to echo because the X server isn't doing anything else
while it beeps. I don't know why inetd would die, though.
If you find a way of reproducing this emacs failure, please tell me; I
can't do much about it until then.
(Incidentally, turning off the X server beep prevents this kind of
failure.)
