Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 17:13:19 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: dg@root.com Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <19981108171319.19261@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <19981108165023.60036@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 04:50:23PM %2B0100 References: <19981108160934.30826@follo.net> <199811081517.HAA03267@root.com> <19981108165023.60036@follo.net>
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On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:17:11AM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > > 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. > > I'm pretty sure this is not the problem. Inactive daemons seems start > dying, and I don't always get the "out of swap space" message that > comes with setting swap_pager_full. Oh, and another aspect: This suddenly started happening. It has been stable for 3/4 of a year, and then suddenly started happening reproducably one day, after a kernel update while John was doing his changes. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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