Re: Scheduler broken on VAX?

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%softjar.se@localhost>]

George Harvey wrote:
> Tested on 5.0_RC2 running on a 4000/500A...
>
> There was a thread a few weeks ago about system hangs and how breaking
> into ddb and single stepping for a while would un-hang them. I've now
> found a simple way to reproduce the symptoms: just run a program with an
> infinite loop in it, other terminal sessions will stop responding but
> the box will still respond to pings. This looks like the scheduler is
> being locked out somehow but I'm unfamiliar with the kernel internals so
> I'm hoping someone more knowledgeable might have some suggestions.

Excellent with such a short program to reproduce the problem.
Now someone just needs to spend some time figuring out what the problem is.

Thanks for the input!

        Johnny

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