From owner-freebsd-current Tue Dec 1 06:29:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA03650 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:29:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from garman.dyn.ml.org (pm106-16.dialip.mich.net [192.195.231.218]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA03629 for ; Tue, 1 Dec 1998 06:29:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from garman@earthling.net) From: garman@earthling.net Received: (qmail 22972 invoked by uid 1000); 1 Dec 1998 14:30:44 -0000 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 1 Dec 1998 09:30:44 -0500 To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Cc: jfieber@indiana.edu (John Fieber), freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 'junk pointer' with inetd ... References: X-Mailer: Mutt 0.58 Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: garman@earthling.net X-Phase-Of-Moon: The Moon is Waxing Gibbous (94% of Full) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD/i386 2.2-STABLE In-Reply-To: ; from The Hermit Hacker on Dec 1, 1998 10:06:27 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The Hermit Hacker writes: > > 384Meg, and > > hub# pstat -s > Device 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Type > /dev/da0s1b 262144 13780 248236 5% Interleaved > /dev/da3s1b 262144 14236 247780 5% Interleaved > /dev/da4s1b 262144 14912 247104 6% Interleaved > Total 786048 42928 743120 5% > another thing to check is your dmesg; see if there's any "suggest more swap space" messages in there. these messages seem to precede the dying daemons on my box at least. (it at least makes the problem much worse in my case) and to those who believe that this bug is only caused when one is "near swap capacity" -- the swapinfo above would refute that :) theres several threads about this -- check the archives. it looks like a kernel bug where process memory gets zeroed when it forks a copy of itself. I see it not only in inetd, but samba, junkbuster, sshd, etc etc etc. look for large numbers of segfaulting daemons in your logs :) enjoy -- Jason Garman http://garman.dyn.ml.org/ Student, University of Maryland garman@earthling.net And now... did you know that: Whois: JAG145 "If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb." -- 0xdeadbeef posting To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message