Clist problem

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <134 at jassys.UUCP>, tony at jassys.UUCP (Tony Holden) writes:
> 
> Question.  What exactly is clist (I know unix but not that deep).  CCI
> wants us to reboot every 3 days until they fix the problem.  Bogus?
> 
Clists are used to store things like character i/o for tty's.  They are
variable length data areas designed for this purpose.  I would guess that
the CCI kernel has a bug that causes it to loose track of some clists over
a period of time, hence the request to reboot every once in a while.

This cannot be a big time bug (I'm sure you won't agree :-) because
with any moderate amount of tty i/o, you would run out of clists in a very
short period of time.

I rebooted the 6/32 a few times in my lifetime, and I know it is no fun
having to loose the machine for the time of the reboot (which isn't short),
but thats alot better than having the system crash in the middle of day 4
just after you modified /etc/passwd or /etc/inittab.