[754] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: lock on from
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Oct 18 09:02:54 1994
To: jd albert <jalbert@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 17 Oct 1994 13:05:13 EDT."
<9410171705.AA02064@numb.mit.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 09:02:41 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> We run a cluster in our house of Linux boxes. The major problem
> with them is that they seem to lock up on 'from' sometimes. It sits
> there in disk wait, and all we can do is reboot...
This is almost certainly a Linux-AFS problem, since it's difficult for
a process to get itself into disk wait without the help of the kernel.
I have similar problems myself.
