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Date:      Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:42:51 +0200
From:      Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
To:        John Dyson <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: VM scrambling pages if space is exceeded
Message-ID:  <19980420024251.42870@follo.net>
In-Reply-To: <19980419194648.11839@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:46:48PM %2B0200
References:  <199804191736.MAA15119@lupo.thebarn.com> <19980419194648.11839@follo.net>

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On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:46:48PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:36:11PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> > This problem has been cropping up with "current" for about the
> > last month. The basic problem shows up with daemon processes 
> > coreing sortly after swap space is maxed out.
> 
> [... snip of daemons sig11'ening...]
> 
> > I wasn't sure if I had bad bits at some point but I have two systems
> > exhibiting the same behavior.
> 
> I _had_ this problem, but it went away when I recompiled with the
> latest kernel sources (yesterday).  At that point, I was out of date
> by a couple of weeks.

This is incorrect.  It has re-surfaced; it only took longer to occur
than it has before (which might just be random chance).

John: if you need hardware details, setup details, a login, or want me
to run any experiments: Just ask (as long as it doesn't involve
significant risk of scrambling my filesystems ;-)

Eivind.

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