From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 12 22:05:54 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1883616A403 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:05:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mail-out3.apple.com (mail-out3.apple.com [17.254.13.22]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 001A113C448 for ; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:05:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from relay6.apple.com (a17-128-113-36.apple.com [17.128.113.36]) by mail-out3.apple.com (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id l0CM5r2U008578; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:05:53 -0800 (PST) Received: from relay6.apple.com (unknown [127.0.0.1]) by relay6.apple.com (Symantec Mail Security) with ESMTP id 909C21009C; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:05:53 -0800 (PST) X-AuditID: 11807124-a4cefbb000006d75-3f-45a806415b57 Received: from [17.214.13.96] (unknown [17.214.13.96]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by relay6.apple.com (Apple SCV relay) with ESMTP id 7D11E10081; Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:05:53 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 14:05:52 -0800 To: Guido Demmenie X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ntpd crashes every once in a while X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:05:54 -0000 On Jan 12, 2007, at 1:03 PM, Guido Demmenie wrote: > ntpd crashes every once in a while, sometimes with days in between > sometimes within a few hours. > > And the error I see in my /var/log/messages is: > Jan 12 14:21:34 rottnic kernel: pid 516 (ntpd), uid 0: exited on > signal 11 (core dumped) > > My server is in the pool of pool.ntp.org and there is mentioned > that I might have to raise my ulimit, but as shown below it is > already unlimited as far as I can see. I've been running ntpd as part of the pool for years on FreeBSD 4.11 & 5.5; ntpd will stay running for at least months at a time if your hardware is OK. Seeing segfaults suggests a RAM problem; try running a memory tester like Memtest86. -- -Chuck