Hmm.. Something strange is going on on my 3600...

When I boot it all is fine. 'ps' works fine, 'w' works.

After a while (and I haven't fond the trigger yet) I can still 
work on it OK, but stuff like 'ps' outputs some info and
then goes to never-never land.. 'w' does output the load
and some user-info, but also never returns after that.

Like this:

NetBSD:ttyp0:arno $ ps -ax
  PID TT  STAT      TIME COMMAND
    0 ??  DLs    0:00.03 (swapper)

<wait until eternity>

A ^C will stop it (phew!), but not on the console..

Why did it suddenly develop this problem while it has been running
fine for weeks on end getting big compile jobs thrown at it???

Oh BTW.. I have mounted the procfs and it still seems to work
fine:

NetBSD:ttyp0:arno $ ls -als /proc
total 19
1 dr-xr-xr-x   1 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 .
2 drwxr-xr-x  17 root  wheel  512 Sep 18 21:09 ..
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 0
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 1
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 125
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 127
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 140
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 146
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  kmem   512 Oct 30 08:25 151
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 160
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 162
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  www    512 Oct 30 08:25 164
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 1646
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 arno  user   512 Oct 30 08:25 1648
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 arno  user   512 Oct 30 08:25 1683
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 2
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 220
1 dr-xr-xr-x   2 root  wheel  512 Oct 30 08:25 85
0 lr--r--r--   1 root  wheel    4 Oct 30 08:25 curproc -> 1683
NetBSD:ttyp0:arno $ df -k
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ra0a      484079   178664   281211    39%    /
/dev/ra0e     1485003   271319  1139433    19%    /devel
procfs              1        1        0   100%    /proc
NetBSD:ttyp0:arno $ 

I think I'll re-build and re-install my userland to see if some
library or binary got mangled somewhere..

Any suggestions welcome..

						Bye Arno.

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