Date: Sun, 14 May 2000 18:13:09 -0500 From: Gerd Knops <gerti@bitart.com> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What's killing my processes? Message-ID: <20000514231309.5860.qmail@camelot.bitart.com> In-Reply-To: <20000514145641.O28383@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.1000515040348.4202A-100000@aurora.scoop.co.nz> <20000514145641.O28383@fw.wintelcom.net>
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Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz> [000514 09:38] wrote: > > > > Something seems to be knocking off various processes on my server > > with the equivalent of a 'kill -9'. This has included processes run > > from the shell as root (make, pico) and some cron jobs. I'm > > guessing there's more, but those are the ones I have a little > > information on. > > > > The only thing I can think of that might do something like this is > > resource limits, but that seems unlikely to hit pico in mid use on > > a small file, and there's no apparent resource crunch going on. I > > think I can rule this out. Is there any other reason the kernel > > itself might issue KILL signals? > > > > How can I get information on what's going on? Is there some way I > > can put in a trace on any KILL signals issued on the system so I > > can identify the culprit process (or kernel)? I can get a list of > > killed processes from the system accounting (lastcomm), but I need > > the signal type and source. > > > > Any ideas? > > Giving us the version of FreeBSD you're running usually helps, with > that noted there was a pretty serious bug a while back where some > system daemon would incorrectly send signals to processes it > shouldn't have. > > I would recommend an upgrade to -stable. > syslogd was the guilty party, killing of processes. I think it only happened when pids were recycled and you are using the '|command' form in syslog.conf. That bug gave me a lot of headaches back then, but is fixed in 3.3 Stable. Gerd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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