Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:56:02 -0800 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@owt.com> To: Jaime <jaime@snowmoon.com>, Gautam Gopalakrishnan <ggop@madras.dyndns.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page faults every few days Message-ID: <200312140056.02821.kstewart@owt.com> In-Reply-To: <6B1F15BC-2E0A-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> References: <6B1F15BC-2E0A-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com>
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On Saturday 13 December 2003 11:52 pm, Jaime wrote:
> On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jaime wrote:
> >> Its probably SpamAssassin, which is run against every incoming
> >> message. This causes it to have lots of copies in memory at once and
> >> to run/quit very often. I don't think that updating Perl will help (I
> >> don't see why a user-space process would interfere with kernel
> >> resource
> >> management.) and I has updated SpamAssassin several times since the
> >> problem began.
> >
> > You probably know, maybe spamd is better than invoking
> > so many perl instances
>
> This is actually what I'm doing. However, spamd is a perl process.
>
> zeus:jkikpole>ps auxww|grep spamd
> root 822 0.0 3.8 21112 9924 ?? Is Tue09AM 2:15.08
> /usr/local/bin/spamd -a -c -d (perl5.00503)
>
> Odd.... For once we have less than 5 spamd processes running
> concurrently. I guess that is what happens at a public school as
> nearly 3am on a Sunday morning. :)
>
Well, there is this piece of info in /usr/src/UPDATING
20030904:
Between August 9th and August 30th, a bug existed in the i386
virtual memory system which could cause panics under load.
Anyone running a kernel built between those dates is advised
to update at the earliest possible convenience.
As some one suggested earlier, I think you should read the above item very
closely.
Kent
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