On Mon Jul 20 04:11:39 EDT 2009, gd...@9grid.es wrote: > hello > > today i found 9grid plan9 under heavy load, stats reports load ~2000, syscall > ~60000, context ~22000, i was trying to discover which proc has gone crazy, > but i can't even complete a ps. I can do other operations, such as sending > this email over drawterm, run stats, netstat, read the logs, etc. but i can't > run ps, or any other /proc related tool, i can't kill/Kill/slay anything. > > I can ls /proc > > cpu% ls -l | wc -l > 573
i've seen this problem before, without an unreasonable load. it happened on a dual-processor machine. since procopen() requires p->debug, it stands to reason that somebody's got p->debug qlocked and won't let go. this is an old problem. here are russ' thoughts from 7 years ago. http://9fans.net/archive/2002/02/350 http://9fans.net/archive/2002/02/360 - erik
