From owner-freebsd-current Fri Nov 6 16:00:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA25018 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:00:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA25001 for ; Fri, 6 Nov 1998 16:00:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id KAA01546; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:29:39 +1030 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) id KAA00850; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:29:39 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19981107102939.I499@freebie.lemis.com> Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:29:39 +1030 From: Greg Lehey 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=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 06:31:12PM +0100 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Friday, 6 November 1998 at 18:31:12 +0100, 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. This is not a requirement. It happened again to me last night without any memory problems. And then we had a 5 hour power blackout and my UPS died :-( Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message