From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 21 12:37:29 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA25435 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:37:29 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from burka.carrier.kiev.ua (burka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA25430 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 12:37:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from archer@lucky.net) Received: (from archer@localhost) by burka.carrier.kiev.ua (8.Who.Cares/8.Who.Cares) id WAA07569 for current@freebsd.org; Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:37:15 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from archer) Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1999 22:37:15 +0200 (EET) From: Alexander Litvin Message-Id: <199901212037.WAA07569@burka.carrier.kiev.ua> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PR filed on dying daemons bug X-Newsgroups: sita.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199812280019.QAA22862@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980226 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/2.2.6-RELEASE (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199812280019.QAA22862@hub.freebsd.org> you wrote: > On 28 Dec, Dmitrij Tejblum wrote: >> I once suggested this patch: >> > [ patch snipped ] >> >> Dima >> > My, I forgot about that patch. It is working so far right now (I've > managed to bring the swap usage to levels which would trigger the bug > before, and nothing has happened yet) > Thank you very much for that patch, please consider this a premature > positive response :) > I haven't had any negative side-effects as a result of this patch, and > it might just be my imagination but it seemed to take much more work to > get the machine to swap than before. If I'm not mistaken, I was that person who gave the positive response to Dima's patch. Since applying it I was not able to reproduce "daemons dying". Though it seems that nobody responsible for FreeBSD VM paied attention to that. I think that it happened so that people who do not see the problem on their machines just do not beleive the problem really exist ;) :(. > -- > Jason Garman http://fs.sso.sytexinc.com/~jgarman/ > Student, University of Maryland garman@earthling.net > Words of Wisdom from the Simpsons: Whois: JAG145 > "'The President did it' is not an excuse" -- Bart Simpson's punishment --- "I didn't know it was impossible when I did it." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message