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- From: shair@barolo.cso.uiuc.edu (Bob Shair)
- Subject: Re: Vi is still broken.
- References: <1992Aug17.163739.29534@APS.Atex.Kodak.COM> <133789@lll-winken.LLNL.GOV>
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- Organization: IBM Champaign
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 15:27:13 GMT
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- terry@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov (Terry Heidelberg x24154) writes:
- >
- >We don't see hangs; what we see is an occasional interactive program
- >looping to beat the band. Since upgrading to 3.2.1 (later to 3.2.2)
- >we have seen the following programs looping:
- > vi aixterm less info_ascii
- >and maybe a few more I forget. The typical scenario is the user
- >telnet's in, works away, and for some reason has the session broken
- >(who knows, maybe after something hangs) after which s/he logs in
- >again, or goes to some other work, unaware that one of his/her processes
- >is running amok. Since we have 18 550 cycle servers to
- >look after, some of these runaways chew up quite a bit of cpu time
- >before they get killed by a system administrator. I have vague
- >suspicions of (a) the telnetd, (b) something in the way these programs
- >handle signals or system-call errors, (c) [the ever popular] AIX.
- >
- >Anyone have similar experiences, or ideas about the cause? Are the
- >above fixes likely to help us?
- >
- If you're running csh, this sounds like the problem we're working on
- under APAR number IX29597. Last time I looked it wasn't fixed yet.
-
- If you're running ksh or sh... ?
- >Thanks.
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- Bob Shair shair@chgvmic1.vnet.ibm.com
- Scientific Computing Specialist SHAIR@UIUCVMD (bitnet)
- IBM Champaign
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