Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watcgl!idallen
From: idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu (Ian! D. Allen [CGL])
Subject: Re: Odd behavior (bugs?) with R4 and ULTRIX on VAXstation 2000/GPX
Message-ID: <1990Oct9.041646.23356@watcgl.waterloo.edu>
Organization: University of Waterloo
References: <1990Oct3.063720.18914@vicorp.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 90 04:16:46 GMT
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>I'm running R4 with patches through #14 on a VAXstation 2000/GPX running
>ULTRIX (now 4.0, was 3.1 -- the behavior is the same in both cases).
>1.  The server frequently hangs and soaks up CPU cycles.

Yes, we see this on our MVII/GPX systems.  "Timeout trying to write to
VIPER" shows up in the syserr files.  "echo hi >/dev/console" sometimes
unsticks things, sometimes makes them worse.  XDVI is notorious for
triggering this bug.  Never happens on monochrome systems.
-- 
-IAN! (Ian! D. Allen) idallen@watcgl.uwaterloo.ca idallen@watcgl.waterloo.edu
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