From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 14 19:40:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA29534 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:40:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from greeves.mfn.org (greeves.mfn.org [204.238.179.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA29510 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 19:40:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: from noc.mfn.org (noc.mfn.org [204.238.179.35]) by greeves.mfn.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id VAA00394 for ; Tue, 14 Jul 1998 21:40:13 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from sysadmin@mfn.org) Received: by noc.mfn.org with Microsoft Mail id <01BDAF99.E3BEEEC0@noc.mfn.org>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:40:12 +0100 Message-ID: <01BDAF99.E3BEEEC0@noc.mfn.org> From: "sysadmin@mfn.org" To: "'freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org'" Subject: rwhod problem: more info, bigger problem... Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 02:40:10 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greetings, I found out what causes my rwho daemon to die, but I can't figure out how to throw gdb on it: It's the act of logging in which makes it die. How would one gdb a task without logging in? I am assuming that this is a low-ram problem, as the machine in question is dedicated to a specific purpose, and has only 8mb of ram. Since rwho runs until a login takes place, my working theory is it dies when trying to swap: top reports 1.6mb of swap in use after login, which means the machine has almost to the byte what it needs to run moment to moment... Any thoughts on how to attack this cockroach? TIA J.A. Terranson sysadmin@mfn.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message