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Subject: Machine hangs, unable to either fork or exec.
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>Number:         1531
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Machine hangs, unable to either fork or exec.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Aug 22 05:20:00 PDT 1996
>Closed-Date:    Sat Feb 22 10:49:16 PST 1997
>Last-Modified:  Sat Feb 22 10:49:40 PST 1997
>Originator:     David Malone
>Release:        FreeBSD 2.1-STABLE i386
>Organization:
School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
>Environment:

FreeBSD-STABLE, supped after 2.1.5-RELEASE.
120MHz Pentium , 64MB Ram, 2*2940 SCSI controlers, S3 video card,
SMC Etherpower 10Mb/s ethernet. Disks are moderatly busy with
a news feed.

>Description:

Twice the machine has hung, so that existing processes contiune
but no more seem to start. I couldn't determine if it was forking or 
execing that wasn't working.

>How-To-Repeat:

Happened once just as I began to run SATAN on the machine, once
just after someone ran "gimp" a graphics package. May or may not
be related.

>Fix:
	
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: scrappy 
State-Changed-When: Tue Oct 22 22:17:38 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  

Confirm Status: Machine hangs, unable to either fork or exec. 

State-Changed-From-To: feedback->open 
State-Changed-By: scrappy 
State-Changed-When: Wed Oct 23 13:07:03 PDT 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  

The problem occured as recently as last week, with a very recent 
version of the 2.1.5-STABLE sources. 


State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: mpp 
State-Changed-When: Sat Feb 22 10:49:16 PST 1997 
State-Changed-Why:  
The originator says the problem has gone away. 
>Unformatted:
