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From: ohurley@cs.tcd.ie (Oisin Hurley)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386,comp.unix.internals,comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Timeout table overflow in ISC 2.0.2
Summary: need help with freeze-up problem
Keywords: ISC timeout freeze warning
Message-ID: <1991Jun7.102033.12203@cs.tcd.ie>
Date: 7 Jun 91 10:20:33 GMT
Organization: DSG, Dept. of Comp. Sci., Trinity College, Dublin.
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[Posting this for a friend of mine who doesn't have news access facilities]

This guy works on a 386 machine running ISC 2.0.2 . An interesting thing 
occurred the other day when he manually killed a process - the message

	WARNING: Timeout table overflow

was sent to the console, continuously, resulting in the machine getting locked
up. The process that was killed is designed to be a longlife effort, running
in the background and supervising 7 or 8 attached child processes. It also
has a message queue associated with it as do most of the children and messages
fly about like nobody's business. Some of the babies also connect to a 
database.

Has anybody come across this before? Does anybody know what's happening
(in detail)? 

Any (sane,relevent) contributions would be welcomed.


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Oisin Hurley, Dept. of Computer Science, TCD, Dublin 2, Ireland.
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