From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 19 17:42:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA25110 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 17:42:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA25089; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:42:53 GMT (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA05395; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 00:42:51 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id CAA12997; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:42:51 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <19980420024251.42870@follo.net> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:42:51 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund To: John Dyson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM scrambling pages if space is exceeded References: <199804191736.MAA15119@lupo.thebarn.com> <19980419194648.11839@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19980419194648.11839@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:46:48PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:46:48PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:36:11PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote: > > This problem has been cropping up with "current" for about the > > last month. The basic problem shows up with daemon processes > > coreing sortly after swap space is maxed out. > > [... snip of daemons sig11'ening...] > > > I wasn't sure if I had bad bits at some point but I have two systems > > exhibiting the same behavior. > > I _had_ this problem, but it went away when I recompiled with the > latest kernel sources (yesterday). At that point, I was out of date > by a couple of weeks. This is incorrect. It has re-surfaced; it only took longer to occur than it has before (which might just be random chance). John: if you need hardware details, setup details, a login, or want me to run any experiments: Just ask (as long as it doesn't involve significant risk of scrambling my filesystems ;-) Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message