At 04:46 PM 1/5/2004, matthew green wrote:


>i debugged this problem this far:
>
>         - not only does sleep(3) not return, _nothing_ times out.  select(2)
>         and poll(2) are similar affected.  ipfilter NAT table grows without
>         bound.  there's more... this is all caused by...
>
>         - the callout table is never run, which is turn is caused by...
>
>         - "softclock()" never running...
>
>i never figured out why softclock wouldn't be called.  it *is* scheduled
>by hardclock but the interrupts for it never seem to come in.

It happens on my netra x1 about once a week.  I find that rebooting is
insufficient to fix it.  I have to cycle power.


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