At 08:16 AM 17/11/95 +0100, Dr. Ferenc Nagy wrote:
>Yesterday I saw three jobs waiting in *EXEC state for 30 minutes or longer.
>They could not start. I did not know the cause of overload. I tried to
>ABORTJOB one of the jobs then the BOUNCE. The ABORTJOB command worked
>only on sessions. Later I purged some big spool files.
>The jobs in *EXEC state did not change.
>The interactive users did not feel anything.
>I was thinking on warmstart when suddenly one of the jobs lost the
>asterisk before the EXEC and soon the others followed it.
 
One possible cause: was the device 'LP' hot?  I recall seeing similar
symptoms when the spooler shutdown leaving the device owned by a single
executing job. The rest were in the quasi "*EXEC" state waiting to open a
$STDLIST.
 
Cheers.
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