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In article <3qfdaa$2cd@ra.nrl.navy.mil> cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz) writes:
>From: cmetz@sundance.itd.nrl.navy.mil (Craig Metz)
>Subject: Re: Entire systems halts during DDS-2 tape backup
>Date: 30 May 1995 15:23:54 GMT

>In article <3qf7mt$rso@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>,
>Geoff Green <spart@mailbox.uq.edu.au> wrote:
>>Just thought that anyone with a similar problem might like to know
>>that the lockup problem went away after a kernel upgrade to 1.2.8
>>
>>Geoff Green (spart@bunyip.cc.uq.edu.au) wrote:
>>: I recently purchased a Conner 4326 DDS-2 tape drive, and it hangs...

>        This is more likely than not a different problem, but has anyone else
>noticed that, should a backup try to back up /proc/kcore, Linux hard locks?
>(This has been so in every version I've ever tested)

>                                                                        -Craig


This is because /proc/kcore is either your RAM or your swap partition (I don't 
remember which).  everything in the /proc directory is in a constant state of 
flux, changing as you call and dismiss programs.

Hope this helps,

Douglas Setser