From owner-freebsd-current Tue Sep 5 00:19:27 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) id AAA10233 for current-outgoing; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 00:19:27 -0700 Received: from bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au (bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au [130.102.2.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id AAA10224 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 00:19:18 -0700 Received: from cc.uq.oz.au by bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au id <02412-0@bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au>; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 17:18:51 +1000 Received: from netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au by pandora.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.10/DEVETIR-E0.3a) with ESMTP id PAA08076 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 15:57:44 +1000 Received: from localhost by netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au (8.6.8.1/DEVETIR-0.1) id FAA07885 for ; Tue, 5 Sep 1995 05:57:50 GMT Message-Id: <199509050557.FAA07885@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6 4/21/95 To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Those VM problems are *not* figments of my imagination Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 15:57:48 +1000 From: Stephen Hocking Sender: current-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk It's occuring on both my current machines, one a 486 dx2-66 with 16Mb, the other a 25MHz 386sx with 8Mb. Each of these has a fairly large amount of swap used (about 37%, or 18Mb of 50Mb). Most programs that die (and this is rather intermittent behaiviour) will go with a sig 10, or very rarely, a sig 8. I've had ftpd and login dip out on me, as well as xterm, xclock, twm and others. These machines are the result of a make world then config foo. The only thing I can think of that caused them to break is the VM stuff, as there's been nothing else major. Not having expended the necessary BS&T (blood sweat & tears) needed to under stand the VM stuff, I can't offer a useful suggestion as to what the problem might be wthin the code. Stephen I do not speak for the Worker's Compensation Board of Queensland - They don't pay me enough for that!