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Date:      Fri, 6 Nov 1998 13:33:41 -0500
From:      "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The infamous dying daemons bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.SGI.4.05.9811061258001.810-100000@o2.cs.rpi.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net>

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Does this happen to everyone,   I personally have *never* seen it happen,
and I have run quite a few systems run with full memory utilization.

On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> It strike when you run out of memory, usually.
> 
> > Are there people running 3.0/Current that have not encountered
> > this bug?
> > 
> > Are there any known factors in a system configuration that
> > aggrivate the problem?  More to the point, is there anything
> > known to suppress the problem to any degree?  Some say it was
> > present in 2.2.x, but I never encountered it.
> 
> Run with insane amounts of swap.  2GB ought to do the trick.  I'm not
> guaranteeing this will stop the problem, but it will make it _much_
> less frequent.
> 
> Eivind, who increased from 128MB to 256MB swap, and had the problem
> almost go away...

--
David Cross


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