Subject: re: Did you ever find the source of the "sleep sleeps forever"
To: None <port-sparc64@netbsd.org>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 01/06/2004 10:12:11
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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