From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 6 15:58:38 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA24737 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:58:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from k6n1.znh.org (dialup5.gaffaneys.com [208.155.161.55]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA24732 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:58:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from zach@gaffaneys.com) Received: (from zach@localhost) by k6n1.znh.org (8.9.1/8.9.1) id XAA02958; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 23:59:47 GMT (envelope-from zach) Message-ID: <19981106175947.A2065@znh.org> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 17:59:47 -0600 From: Zach Heilig To: Eivind Eklund , John Fieber , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug References: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 06:31:12PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 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