Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:20:45 PDT From: "Michael Imamura" <troogzork@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? Message-ID: <19980824152046.24903.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Would this be related to my problem of cron all of a sudden dying off
repeatedly, sometimes every few minutes, after the system has been
compiling for a while?
- Michael Imamura
Ucod Data Systems
http://i.am/ucod/
>Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:13:46 -0400 (EDT)
>From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
>To: Pierre Beyssac <Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr>
>Cc: Alexander Sanda <entropy@compufit.at>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ?
>
><<On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:58:16 +0200, Pierre Beyssac
<Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr> said:
>
>> Under out of memory conditions, inetd tends to fall in a weird
>> state. Apparently this is an interaction between the malloc library
>> and inetd, but nobody has managed yet to find out exactly what
>> happens. Maybe error checking is lacking somewhere.
>
>No, this is the ``daemons dying'' bug which nobody has fixed yet.
>When the system runs out of swap, some random selection of processes
>which are in swap get corrupted. Usually this results in a daemon
>which dies whenever it fork()s, but sometimes it is manifested as
>other sorts of corruption. The message you see from realloc is
>indicative of a corrupted pointer.
>
>-GAWollman
>
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