At 05:01 PM 6/30/00 -0700, Peter Prymmer wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Jun 2000, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
>Well that sounds interesting - I am hoping that explains some things
>around here. I note that the original report was for VMS V6.2*.
>It would presumably still be in VMS V7.1? Are there any ECO's
>issued for this? Thanks in advance.
It should appear anywhere that's running perl 5.005_0x. (It's a bug in
perl, not in VMS) I don't know if this has been fixed for 5.6.0, but if not
I'll get patches out for both 5.005_03 (there may be one in the archive
already) and for 5.6.0 if need be,
Dan
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