Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 23:17:00 -0500 (EST) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: dg@root.com Cc: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <199811090417.XAA13563@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <199811081517.HAA03267@root.com> References: <19981108160934.30826@follo.net> <199811081517.HAA03267@root.com>
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<<On Sun, 08 Nov 1998 07:17:11 -0800, David Greenman <dg@root.com> said: > brk(2) will fail and return ENOMEM if the system is low on swap space. If > the application (phk malloc or the caller of malloc?) isn't prepared for this, > it may end up with a NULL pointer that it doesn't expect - perhaps not even > tripping over it until sometime later. Totally unrelated to the problem. It seems, so far as I was able to characterize, to happen to daemons which are *swapped out* at the time of the memory shortage. If it's active enough to still be in core, it doesn't get spammed. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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