From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 31 06:37:16 1995 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA17485 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 06:37:16 -0800 Received: from brasil.moneng.mei.com (brasil.moneng.mei.com [151.186.20.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA17471 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 06:37:13 -0800 Received: (from jgreco@localhost) by brasil.moneng.mei.com (8.7.Beta.1/8.7.Beta.1) id IAA09855; Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:36:38 -0600 From: Joe Greco Message-Id: <199510311436.IAA09855@brasil.moneng.mei.com> Subject: Re: hummin security check output (fwd) To: dyson@freefall.freebsd.org (John Dyson) Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 08:36:36 -0600 (CST) Cc: jgreco@mei.com, hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199510310405.UAA09706@freefall.freebsd.org> from "John Dyson" at Oct 30, 95 08:05:36 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk > > 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!!! If there is anything I can do to provide more useful information, please let me know. Something is suddenly wreaking havoc with this machine's VM on a nightly basis (probably news-related) - it was ramming its head again this morning but doesn't appear to have magically touched any files this time. I can avoid fixing whatever is wrong for a few days, if I can do anything useful to try to help you track this problem... (I know that's still a snowball-in-oven chance, but better that than not at all) ... Joe ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Joe Greco - Systems Administrator jgreco@ns.sol.net Solaria Public Access UNIX - Milwaukee, WI 414/342-4847