From: Mike Broderick (broderic@MIT.EDU)
Date: Thu Dec 05 2002 - 13:05:22 EST
We have a 40g+PK3 system that is hanging whenever a 'ps' command is
used. A reboot fixes it temporarily but I can't be doing that in
production too often :-) When we first experienced this problem a long
while ago were given a fix of removing "options RPTY" from the kernel
config and adding pseudo ttys (pseudo-device pty 512). We have done
that on several systems and it seemed to help. Today we have a system
that is not responding to that fix. (Another proposed fix of upgrading
to 5.x is not an option at this time for us.)
I searched the archives for 'ps hang' and tried a few things suggested
like checking /proc etc.
Anyone else have ideas?
_Mike
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