From owner-freebsd-current Sun Apr 19 18:03:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA27678 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 18:03:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [209.133.7.234]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id BAA27668; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 01:03:36 GMT (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA00303; Sun, 19 Apr 1998 18:03:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hasty@rah.star-gate.com) Message-Id: <199804200103.SAA00303@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Eivind Eklund cc: John Dyson , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM scrambling pages if space is exceeded In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 20 Apr 1998 02:42:51 +0200." <19980420024251.42870@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 18:03:32 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Me too. First ran into the behavior of daemons, like sendmail, core dumping while trying to compile netscape and running out of swap space. Tnks, Amancio > 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 At that point, I was out of date 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message