From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Dec 21 01:20:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id BAA27354 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:20:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27309 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:19:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from Unknown UID 563@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id BAA01057; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:20:01 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 01:20:01 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199812210920.BAA01057@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Mark Newton Subject: Re: kern/7925: sendmail, inetd barf after a week or so of uptime Reply-To: Mark Newton Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/7925; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Mark Newton To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: kern/7925: sendmail, inetd barf after a week or so of uptime Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:46:05 +1030 (CST) FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG wrote: > >Category: kern > >Responsible: freebsd-bugs > >Synopsis: sendmail, inetd SIGSEGV after forking after "enough" days of uptime > >Arrival-Date: Sun Sep 13 23:30:01 PDT 1998 Further info: Many repeats of this bug indicate that it occurs after the kernel prints "swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 128 MB" messages. No reboots are required until that point. I've added another disk to the machine with a 64 Mbyte swap partition since then and the problem hasn't bitten at all. pstat -s never indicated that I was running out of swap even when that message was being printed, so I treated it as a "something to give attention to one day" rather than an "emergency! your system will need a reboot any minute now" kind of message. The "suggest more swap" message used to come up fairly reliably if I had two users running KDE and/or Netscape :-( Message comes up if we've never seen it before and if vm_swap_size < btodb(cnt.v_page_count * PAGE_SIZE). Where on earth is "cnt" declared? A macro somewhere? hmm. Anyway, hopefully this lends more info that can be used to fix this rather long-standing bug (if it isn't fixed already; The PR is still open, so I'm gathering it isn't). -------------------------------------------------------------------- I tried an internal modem, newton@atdot.dotat.org but it hurt when I walked. Mark Newton ----- Voice: +61-4-1958-3414 ------------- Fax: +61-8-83034403 ----- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message