Re: Scheduler broken on VAX?

[George Harvey <fr30%dial.pipex.com@localhost>]

On Thu, 26 Feb 2009 08:16:08 -0700 (MST)
"Michael L. Hitch" <mhitch%lightning.msu.montana.edu@localhost> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, George Harvey wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
>    This should now be fixed in -current, and a pullup has been
>    submitted for netbsd-5.

Yes! I've patched my RC2 kernel and it doesn't hang anymore. It's also
fixed the hang I was seeing when running Tcl's 'make test'.

Thanks,
George