On Thu, 19 Jul 2001, David Wolfskill wrote:
> >Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 02:48:10 -1000 (HST)
> >From: Vincent Poy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > With a July 18, 2001 sources, it seems like the kernel hands at
> >the entropy harvesting stage.... ctrl-t shows:
>
> >load : 098 cmd : sycctl 51 [running] 4.51u 210.37s 0% 172k
>
> > It will just sit there forever until ctrl-c is hit. Anyone knows
> >what's wrong? Thanks.
>
> This was discussed (to some extent) aboust a week & a half ago in -current.
> It seems (pointed out by Alexander Leidinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>)
> that -- for some of us, at least -- "sysctl -a" (used in the entropy
> harvesting by /etc/rc -- fails to terminate.
>
> Also (again, for me) "sysctl -N -a" outputs a (non-terminating) stream of
>
> net.inet.accf.373
>
> lines using my (slightly customized) kernel, but with GENERIC, it exhibits
> similar behavior, but outputs a stream of
>
> net.inet.accf.372
>
> lines.
>
>
> Unfortunately, I'm not sufficiently clueful to figure out how the notion
> of what sysctls exist on the system could get so confused as to do that.
>
> Given the behavior, though, my current (wild) guess is that some code is
> stomping on a data structure in a somewhat configuration-dependent way.
>
> Clues would be quite welcome....
I fixed the problem... As long as my custom kernel doesn't have
the following that I added to GENERIC along with other stuff, it will not
hang just like GENERIC with maxuser 512 doesn't hang either at this
stage...
options LINPROCFS
options PSEUDOFS
>From NOTES:
# Enable the linux-like proc filesystem support (requires COMPAT_LINUX
# and PSEUDOFS)
I guess it's Just say No to Linux ;)
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