From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 24 04:24:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA16528 for current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:24:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from nic.follonett.no (nic.follonett.no [194.198.43.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA16522 for ; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 04:24:05 -0800 (PST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by nic.follonett.no (8.8.5/8.8.3) with UUCP id NAA13321; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:22:16 +0100 (MET) Received: from oo7 (oo7.dimaga.com [192.0.0.65]) by dimaga.com (8.8.5/8.7.2) with SMTP id NAA21383; Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:40 +0100 (MET) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970224132441.00b50580@dimaga.com> X-Sender: eivind@dimaga.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 24 Feb 1997 13:24:42 +0100 To: tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu From: Eivind Eklund Subject: Re: Problems with PPP in -current? Cc: current@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-current@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 09:11 AM 2/24/97 -0000, tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu wrote: >Hey all. This might have already been asked, but, well, I'm too tired >at this point to really care, and I've been behind on mail... Has any- >one been having problems with user-land PPP under -current? Specifically, >is anyone getting a *lot* of SIGSEGV's? I'm experiencing weird problems >with a 3.0-CURRENT system (with a force'd make world) talking PPP though >a 16550 UART to a USR modem to a telebit netblazer at PSU's comp center. >It's so bad, I can only keep a PPP connection alive for about 5 minutes >before ppp starts eating up CPU time (presumably in signal handers, at >least that's what ktrace says), and I have to kill -9 it. Brian added some code to deal with signal problems a few days ago. Have you tried the very latest version? (There were updtes to PPP less than 24h ago; the signal changes came about three days ago, I believe) Eivind Eklund perhaps@yes.no http://maybe.yes.no/perhaps/ eivind@freebsd.org