From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 6 12:56:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA01122 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:56:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from picnic.mat.net (picnic.mat.net [206.246.122.117]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA01110 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 12:56:53 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from chuckr@mat.net) Received: from localhost (chuckr@localhost) by picnic.mat.net (8.9.1/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA11065; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:50:30 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:50:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey To: Eivind Eklund cc: John Fieber , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug In-Reply-To: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > 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... David Greenman committed some fixes a couple weeks back which he speculated *might* have an effect on this. John, is your stuff newer than that? Or any anyone noticed the inetd thing since then? I can dig up the commit message, if you need it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message