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- From: rogerc@kuhio.wpd.sgi.com (Roger Chickering)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: cdromd runs away
- Message-ID: <ptdvk9@twilight.wpd.sgi.com>
- Date: 16 Sep 92 03:26:32 GMT
- References: <32566@adm.brl.mil>
- Sender: news@twilight.wpd.sgi.com ( CNews Account at twilight.wpd.sgi.com )
- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <32566@adm.brl.mil> beyer@bflsgu.fl.bs.dlr.de (R. Beyer) writes:
- >on an Indigo/Entry running IRIX 4.0.1 and owning a CDROM drive with
- >CD inserted the cdromd runs away some hours after reboot, i.e. cdromd
- >eats up all processor time. Running 'top' produces this output:
-
- >IRIX bflsgg 4.0.1 11150233 IP12 Load[1.32,1.48,1.21] 16:25:34 48 procs
- > user pid pgrp %cpu proc pri size rss time command
- > root 224 0 96.6 * 100 45 15 134:33 cdromd
- > beyer 402 401 1.4 * +39 531 179 13:33 gr_osview
- > root 232 232 0.6 * 26 1089 362 5:46 Xsgi
- > beyer 1233 1233 0.6 0 +65 50 50 0:00 top
- > beyer 445 267 0.2 * 26 211 97 0:03 xwsh
- > root 340 112 0.2 * 26 48 25 0:18 fam
-
- >What is going wrong here ? Any hint would be very much appreciated.
-
- cdromd listens on a message queue for messages from the eject command
- and from subsequent invocations of cdromd. For some reason (someone
- ran ipcrm?), the message queue disappears and cdromd goes into a very
- tight loop of having listening on the queue fail.
-
- The message queue interface was replaced in 4.0.5, fixing this
- problem.
-
- -Roger
-