From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 8 05:46:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA12373 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:46:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA12368 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:46:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA24483; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:39:27 -0800 (PST) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpdD24481; Sun Nov 8 13:39:26 1998 Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:38:57 -0800 (PST) From: Julian Elischer To: Eivind Eklund cc: Russell Cattelan , John Fieber , "David E. Cross" , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug In-Reply-To: <19981108140935.06929@follo.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG We've been having a problem with daemons dying with sig11 singe at least mid 97 with 486DX100 boxen. julian On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:28:07PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote: > > I've been complaining about this problem since January. > > The 'dying daemons bug', not the 'inetd crashes/gives "junk pointer" > messages' bug? > > Let's list the facts we have here: > * Problem first spotted in January > > * Problem occur on my PPro box with the combinations > - 64MB RAM/128MB swap > - 64MB RAM/256 MB swap (much less frequently than with 128MB swap) > - 80MB RAM/256 MB swap (seems more frequent than with > 64MB/256MB, but I have not recorded how it behaves, so I > can't really say) > I've got a PPro 200 (Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x617 Stepping=7) > * Problem occur on a P200MMX (Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping=3) > with 96MB RAM and 200MB swap > * Problem has never occured on a P133 (unknown stepping) with 24MB RAM > and 64MB swap. > * Problem occur with both IDE and a bunch of different SCSI cards > (thus it seems we can eliminate the disk system) > > I know of three pieces of hardware I have that I've not yet gotten > confirmation that other doesn't have: > (1) AWE64 soundboard > (2) TV card > (3) Network card - a PCI ed (though I changed to this later than first > seeing the bugs, I think...) > > Eivind. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message