I am a new user of GNU/Hurd. I installed last week from the H4 iso images. This is probably an easy question for someone: System boots and seems to run fine. The main important processes are running, including proc, init, ext2fs.static, exec, auth, runsystem, runttys, and other daemons like syslogd and inetd. All total, around 20-30 processes, depending on what I'm doing. The problem starts when I try to do "cd /dev ; ls " Suddenly, there are about 128 processes; all the new ones look like this: root 162 3 - 0:00.04 /hurd/term /dev/ptyq8 pty-master /dev/ttyq8 root 163 3 - 0:00.03 /hurd/term /dev/ptyq9 pty-master /dev/ttyq9 root 164 3 - 0:00.00 /hurd/term /dev/ptyqa pty-master /dev/ttyqa root 165 3 - 0:00.03 /hurd/term /dev/ptyqb pty-master /dev/ttyqb root 166 3 - 0:00.01 /hurd/term /dev/ptyqc pty-master /dev/ttyqc root 167 3 - 0:00.03 /hurd/term /dev/ptyqd pty-master /dev/ttyqd root 168 3 - 0:00.03 /hurd/term /dev/ptyqe pty-master /dev/ttyqe root 169 3 - 0:00.01 /hurd/term /dev/ptyqf pty-master /dev/ttyqf Sometimes, the system hangs, IP stack seems to crash, other times not. I have 64 Mb ram and 256 Mb swap enabled. From what little I know about Hurd, it appears that there are passive translators set in all the nodes under /dev, and the ls command brings them alive. This does not seem like proper behaviour and I don't remember this happening when I first installed the system. I have not made any changes to /dev or any of the nodes within it, except to run MAKEDEV to create the driver nodes I need for my scsi disk. The ptys were already there after the install. Could someone offer any clues ? Thanks, K. Bradford stdin@earthlink.net ----- End forwarded message ----- -- K. Bradford Unix Systems Admin Clarkdale Jerome School District krb@cjsd.k12.az.us krb@verderiver.org PGP public key available at http://cjsd.k12.az.us/~krb/pubkey/
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