>>>>> "Anders" == Anders Magnusson <ragge@ludd.luth.se> writes:

>>  I have had several recent 'odd' system hangs lately.  I havn't
>> been able to pin them down definately.

>> Each terminal on the system responds to one carriage return, but
>> then no further characters are accepted.  It has happened several
>> times recently.  The last time it happened, it was shortly after
>> cron started the sendbatches process.

>> I will be watching it closely to determine if this is part of the
>> problem or a coincidence.

Anders> I have the same problem on one of my machines. It is beacuse
Anders> (in my case) inetd forks up a lot of processes (> 100) that
Anders> all get blocked.  I will go into the crash dumps and try to
Anders> find out why someday when I get time (if noone else does it
Anders> before!).

	It turns out that my problems were being caused by echo being
set on my modem.  This caused enough of an interupt storm that nothing
got processed.  At some point, something just dies, and the echo storm
stopped (which is why I didn't realize the problem until I caught it
happening) because the poor old Sun stops echoing (and dies).

	I'm not going to chase this one down right now.  I fixed the
echo on my modem.  As a side note, I was unable to get cur to talk to
the port as per the manual (I had to use my Amiga to adjust the
modem).

	As a complete aside, does anyone know how to get uucp to limit
the length of calls?

Dave.

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