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From: jleslie@dmccorp.com (Jerry Leslie)
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Subject: Re: Run away jobs in Alpha
Date: 8 Nov 1994 09:05:44 GMT
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Tingli Pan (utingli@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu) wrote:
: In article <39m447$mrm@bigboote.wpi.edu>,
: David M. Desroches <dmdesroches@jake.wpi.edu> wrote:
: >
: >Tingli Pan writes:
: >>First I got complains that users can not stop their jobs. And I was
: >>told again that another user saw his process in the system after he
: >>logged off. Both the cases those jobs run away, take a lot of CPU. The
: >>interesting thing about the second job is when I look at it by show
: >>system, its status is CUR. When looking at it through SHOW USER/FULL,
: >>the terminal is disconnected. But I have no way to stop the process, by
: >>using STOP/ID=****. 
: >>
: >>I'm running Open VMS AXP 6.1. The TCP/IP connection is UCX 3.1.
: >
: >We need more information than this in order to try to help you.  Have you 
: >done a "SHOW PROCESS/CONTINUOUS/ID=####" before doing the STOP/ID=####?
: >
: >If so, what was the image that was running at the time?  If the image is
: >not a VMS application, what is the version of the image that was in the
: >runaway situation?
: >
: Although I rebooted the system at noon, the runaway job is back again.
: When using SHOW PROCESS, the result is "process suspended". But when
: using MONI RPOC/TOPCPU, the job takes 100 percent of CPU.	

: Tingli Pan

There is an OpenVMS AXP V6.1 patch that might explain what's going on...

ECO INFORMATION:

     ECO Kit Name:  AXPSYS03_061
     ECO Kits Superseded by This ECO Kit:  none
     ECO Kit Approximate Size:  1080 Blocks
     Kit Applies To:  OpenVMS AXP V6.1
     System Reboot Necessary:  Yes

ECO KIT SUMMARY:

An ECO kit exists for IO Routines on OpenVMS AXP V6.1. This kit addresses 
the following problems:

    o  Process loops in kernel mode, holding IO database  mutex.   The
       problem  can  be  reproduced  by  sending mail to yourself on a
       workstation after creating and deleting the message window.
==============================================================================

--Gerald (Jerry) R. Leslie
  Staff Engineer
  Dynamic Matrix Control Corporation    (my opinions are my own)
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