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From: John Dyson <dyson>
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Subject: Re: hummin security check output (fwd)
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Date: Mon, 30 Oct 1995 20:05:36 -0800 (PST)
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In-Reply-To: <199510310245.UAA08217@solaria.sol.net> from "Joe Greco" at Oct 30, 95 08:45:15 pm
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> 
> During a period of unusual distress (cause unknown) followed by a panic and
> automatic reboot, my INN news server "hummin" ran out of swap for a period
> of several hours - and the strangest thing happened.  It appears that a
> number of running programs were "touched" in the midst of the period it was
> running out of swap...
> 
> Background:  FreeBSD 2.0.5R, 48MB RAM, ASUS SP3G AMD DX4/100, NCR 810 SCSI,
> AHA-1542B SCSI
> 
Excellent!!!  I have been trying to reproduce that problem.  I have seen it,
and have not been able to track it down.  Now I have the proverbial
snowball's chance to fix it!!!

John
dyson@freebsd.org