From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sun Jul 8 16:32:50 2018 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5AB261038EB6 for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:32:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from srs0=tog7=jy=mail.sermon-archive.info=doug@sermon-archive.info) Received: from mail.sermon-archive.info (sermon-archive.info [71.177.216.148]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CEF2A7D39F for ; Sun, 8 Jul 2018 16:32:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from srs0=tog7=jy=mail.sermon-archive.info=doug@sermon-archive.info) Received: from [10.0.1.251] (mini [10.0.1.251]) by mail.sermon-archive.info (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 41NvBx6GsXz2fjQS; Sun, 8 Jul 2018 09:32:41 -0700 (PDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 11.4 \(3445.8.2\)) Subject: Re: Signal 6 From: Doug Hardie In-Reply-To: Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 09:32:41 -0700 Cc: freebsd-questions Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <9D5EC5A8-6AB3-43EA-9641-C0FA26972E3B@mail.sermon-archive.info> References: <0D66C7A3-EBE6-475C-8360-CAFEAEA4D328@mail.sermon-archive.info> To: Michael Sierchio X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.3445.8.2) X-Virus-Scanned: clamav-milter 0.99.4 at mail X-Virus-Status: Clean X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 08 Jul 2018 16:32:50 -0000 -- Doug > On 29 June 2018, at 08:56, Michael Sierchio = wrote: >=20 > Are there process limits? Yes - defaults as best as I can tell. brain# limits Resource limits (current): cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kB datasize 33554432 kB stacksize 524288 kB coredumpsize infinity kB memoryuse infinity kB memorylocked infinity kB maxprocesses 12128 openfiles 232812 sbsize infinity bytes vmemoryuse infinity kB pseudo-terminals infinity swapuse infinity kB kqueues infinity umtxp infinity brain# limits -p 47719 This is the current process in question - = owned by root Resource limits (current): pseudo-terminals 47719 brain# limits -U root Resource limits for class root: cputime infinity secs filesize infinity kB datasize infinity kB stacksize infinity kB coredumpsize infinity kB memoryuse infinity kB memorylocked infinity kB maxprocesses infinity openfiles infinity sbsize infinity bytes vmemoryuse infinity kB pseudo-terminals infinity swapuse infinity kB kqueues infinity umtxp infinity I am guessing that stacksize limits the heap? But I can't tell which = value is used by that process. > malloc() will call abort() if internal structures are munged (e.g., by = heap overflow). I am suspecting this is the cause, but how do you tell what the heap = usage is? >=20 > calling free() on a corrupted pointer does that reliably This process runs on a number of different machines. Only the one has = the issue so I suspect that it is data dependent. This one handles the = most data. >=20 > is the root partition big enough for the dump? Yes - single partition system. 191 Gb available in the / partition. >=20 > =3D M >=20 > On Fri, Jun 29, 2018 at 8:40 AM, Doug Hardie wrote: > I have a daemon process that runs forever (almost). Something is = killing it with a signal 6, but no core dump is done. If I manually = kill it with kill -6, then the log message shows core dumped and a core = file is created. The process has no reference to SIG_ABRT, so I suspect = the kernel is doing the kill and is overriding the core dump. I have = previously encountered a similar issue where swap space was running out = and the kernel killed this process without a core dump. In that case = there were quite a few messages logged about swap space issues before = the process was killed. There are no swap messages logged this time. >=20 > /etc/sysctl.conf contains: > kern.sugid_coredump=3D1 > kern.corefile=3D/crash/%N.core >=20 > /crash is a directory in the root file system. >=20 > Other than swap issues, when would the kernel kill a process without a = core dump? >=20 > -- Doug >=20 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >=20 >=20 >=20 > --=20 > "Well," Brahma said, "even after ten thousand explanations, a fool is = no wiser, but an intelligent person requires only two thousand five = hundred." >=20 > - The Mah=C4=81bh=C4=81rata