RE: Perl hangs on OpenVMS

[Dan Sugalski]

At 03:02 PM 6/30/00 -0500, Craig A. Berry wrote:
>At 6:47 PM +0200 6/30/00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>>MON MODES
>>         With Perl running, 83% kernel mode, 16% user mode
>>         Without Perl running, 11% user mode, 86% idle time
>
>Hmm.  Perl doesn't do anything in kernel mode itself, I don't think, so 
>this would point to getting stuck in some RTL or other.  Right? Could be 
>running out of quota inside of a system service that doesn't properly 
>handle it.  Any SYSGEN parameters changed recently?  Just another wild 
>guess to throw in the pot.

The current thinking is the rightslist is too long on the node having a 
problem. There's a bug in the image init code that'll loop forever if 
that's the case, and it'll spend a significant amount of time in $GETJPI 
while it does it.

                                        Dan

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