[comp.sys.sun] Cmdtool runs wild

t19@nikhef.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh) (03/23/91)

Occasionally when my little console window (SunView) receives a redraw
event it runs wild:

USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT STAT START  TIME COMMAND
gj        6667 93.6  9.6  144  664 p3 R    10:12   1:02 cmdtool -Wp 0 0 -Ws 676 

Any click on it will hang the machine, the only solution is to kill it and
start a new one.  Is this a known problem and is there a workaround?
Configuration: Sun SLC, SunOS 4.1.1.

Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
gj@hep.physik.uni-muenchen.de (Germans *love* long names)

claus@suncvt13.verfahrenstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de (Claus Fleischer) (03/26/91)

In article <2095@brchh104.bnr.ca>, t19@nikhef.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh) writes:
|> Occasionally when my little console window (SunView) receives a redraw
|> event it runs wild:
|> 
|> USER       PID %CPU %MEM   SZ  RSS TT STAT START  TIME COMMAND
|> gj        6667 93.6  9.6  144  664 p3 R    10:12   1:02 cmdtool -Wp 0 0 -Ws 676 
|> 
|> Any click on it will hang the machine, the only solution is to kill it and
|> start a new one.  Is this a known problem and is there a workaround?

This happens on my machine to occasionally, not only but preferably to
cmdtool. Also the window might disappear and the status changes to RUNNING
process (is that right?). At least, the process won't be listed anymore
with  "ps -aux" but now appears if I say "ps -auxr". 

Any help ?

 Claus Fleischer, Inst.Chem.Verf.tech, Uni Stuttgart, 7000 Stuttgart 1, FRG
 INTERNET:  claus@suncvt13.verfahrenstechnik.uni-stuttgart.de