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Date:      Thu, 6 Jan 2000 21:39:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      Omachonu Ogali <oogali@intranova.net>
To:        up@3.am
Cc:        FreeBSD ISP List <freebsd-isp@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Why I have to reboot at times; was:RE: uptimes, Woo Hoo
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001062138120.13732-100000@hydrant.intranova.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10001051448030.22323-100000@richard2.pil.net>

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Control-Z is nothing but the suspend command, meaning the program sits in
the background in a state frozen execution. Other programs may have child
processes spawned, have signal handlers, or are just plain stubborn.

Omachonu Ogali
Intranova Networking Group

On Wed, 5 Jan 2000 up@3.am wrote:

> 
> ok, on the pretense of steering this thread back to topic, I could use
> some advice on the following problems I've been seeing with 3.2-RELEASE:
> 
> there appears to be some sort of memory leak that I can't track down to a
> specific process (I have 256MB on this box):
> 
> Mem: 87M Active, 129M Inact, 25M Wired, 6332K Cache, 8343K Buf, 4196K Free
> Swap: 517M Total, 517M Free
> 
> After a reboot, this will have well over 100MB free, and gradually eat all
> but a few MB of it, but rarely (if ever) touch swap.  I've done top, ps
> amx, and I don't see anything particularly huge.  I also tried a virgin ps
> (just in case I'd been hacked), and seen no difference.
> 
> *Part* of the problem appears to be that interactive shell processes don't
> die if I do a CTL-C, CTL-D or CTL-Z.  they stop and remain in memory until
> I either kill the process, or the shell.  I dunno if this is normal FBSD
> behavior, just that it doesn't happen in Solaris or Linux.
> 
> On Wed, 5 Jan 2000, Troy Settle wrote:
> 
> > Our power is fairly stable, but it does go out on occasion.
> > 
> > The last outage we had lasted about 12 hours.  Our UPS (Matrix 3000) only
> > held out for about 6 hours :(
> > 
> > I'm trying to get a generator, but it doesn't look like that's going to
> > happen any time soon.
> > 
> > -Troy
> > 
> > 
> > ** -----Original Message-----
> > ** From: owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> > ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-isp@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of n8
> > ** Sent: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 12:04 PM
> > ** To: Kurt Jaeger auf Mailinglisten
> > ** Cc: Willem Jan Withagen; oppermann@pipeline.ch; isp@FreeBSD.ORG
> > ** Subject: Re: uptimes, Woo Hoo
> > **
> > **
> > ** WOW. Must be nice...
> > ** I loose power for longer than one hour usually, and it happens every 1-3
> > ** MONTHS.  I'm starting to feel good about my 75 day uptimes.  :)
> > **
> > ** Vae
> > **
> > **
> > ** On Mon, 3 Jan 2000, Kurt Jaeger auf Mailinglisten wrote:
> > **
> > ** > Hi!
> > ** >
> > ** > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 10:56:49AM -0600, n8 wrote:
> > ** > > > obcore$ uptime
> > ** > > >  7:53AM  up 845 days, 10:12, 1 user, load averages: 0.00,
> > ** 0.00, 0.00
> > ** > > > obcore$
> > ** >
> > ** > > Are you guys on some sort of special powergrid or something?
> > ** >
> > ** > It's called the european power grid, a large, interconnected grid
> > ** > of almost all power plants in Europe, from Norway down to Italy.
> > ** >
> > ** > Pretty robust. We also have UPSs, but this particular server is
> > ** > not connected to one. Why ? Answer: Because up to now, it was
> > ** > not the power grid that failed, but the UPS (most of them from APC,
> > ** > where does their reputation is coming from ?).
> > ** >
> > ** > In the future, only systems with two seperate power supplies
> > ** > that connect to two different UPSs make any sense to me. Too expensive
> > ** > for all equipment, but well...
> > ** >
> > ** >
> > ** >
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