Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 16:09:05 +1030 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: terry@lambert.org (Terry Lambert) Cc: drussell@saturn-tech.com, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SIGTERMs killing X Message-ID: <199703260539.QAA25237@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199703260450.VAA27126@phaeton.artisoft.com> from Terry Lambert at "Mar 25, 97 09:50:50 pm"
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Terry Lambert stands accused of saying: > > in the last few days for no apparent reason. > > > > Mar 24 12:22:23 586quick166 /kernel: pid 218 (XF86_SVGA), uid 0: exited on signal 6 > > Mar 25 11:27:22 586quick166 /kernel: pid 7136 (XF86_SVGA), uid 0: exited on signal 6 > > > > I can't for the life of me determine why it would have got an ABORT > > signal.... Where would that be coming from? The machine is just sitting > > there idle (AFAIK, anyway... :)) and when I get home from work, for > > example, it's no longer running X. > > It is because FreeBSD is overcommiting memory in it's VM system. > > I am sorry for you that you got this error... > > I am glad you got this error, because you are a real-world example > of a need for a tunable which I have been lobbying for for four years. > Now I have a sample case, and I am happy because I can flagellate > the powers that be every time the topic comes up in the future. 8-). > > > What it means is that your VM space for your process has been > destroyed (you can see this by looking in /sys/kern/kern_exec.c). Actually, in all my (few) years of abusing FreeBSD systems, I have never, to my knowledge, received a SIGABRT for any reason other than memory corruption, either through VM breakage or good old PC memory crap. > Terry Lambert -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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