Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcvax!nikhefh!i91 From: i91@nikhefh.hep.nl (Fons Rademakers) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: /bin/csh and /bin/sh hang sometimes Message-ID: <237@nikhefh.hep.nl> Date: 11 Aug 89 13:12:24 GMT Reply-To: i91@nikhefh.hep.nl (Fons Rademakers) Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands). Lines: 16 Hi, Lately I am observing the following problem: after log in when /bin/start_csh is executed (SR9.7) it takes a very long time before I get a prompt. Also running shell scripts written in /bin/sh take very long to execute. To find the problem I traced with DPAT a shell script and it turns out that the system is waiting in the routine (?) SVC! for a very long time. Then suddenly it continues. The only remedy I've found so far is shutting and rebooting the node (a DN580-T). What is SVC! doing? How can this problem be fixed? Cheers, Fons Rademakers. -- Org: NIKHEF-H, National Institute for Nuclear and High-Energy Physics. Mail: Kruislaan 409, P.O. Box 41882, 1009 DB Amsterdam, the Netherlands Phone: (20)5925018 or 5925003 Telex: 10262 (hef nl) UUCP: i91@nikhefh.hep.nl BITNET: nikhefh!i91@mcvax.bitnet