Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 18:31:12 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061149210.429-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>; from John Fieber on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:12:14PM -0500 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061149210.429-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu>
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On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:12:14PM -0500, John Fieber wrote: > I've now figured out that it must be the infamous dying daemons > bug that is biting me, and pretty bad. Inetd won't run more than > a day without falling over. Sendmail and apache last longer, but > not a lot. > > So, to date, what is known about the bug? 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... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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