Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:59:47 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <19981106175947.A2065@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 06:31:12PM %2B0100 References: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061149210.429-100000@fallout.campusview.indiana.edu> <19981106183112.27770@follo.net>
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On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 06:31:12PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > 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... It may be interesting to know that mounting the same swap paritition twice causes the exact same symptoms. I didn't do this on purpose... it happened when we switched over to CAM, both /dev/sd0s1b and /dev/da0s1b were mounted... (I let it boot, and made my configuration changes, then went to single user and back to make sure everything in /etc worked properly). -- Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have to at least consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family Anatidę on our hands (Douglas Adams -- Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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