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Date:      Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:19:44 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Tony McGregor <tonym@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
To:        Todd Hansen <tshansen@nlanr.net>
Cc:        mike@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/17134: problem with 3.0-RELEASE cron forgetting jobs
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.21.0108241017570.4566-100000@byerley.cs.waikato.ac.nz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108060856300.93879-100000@mave.nlanr.net>

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We haven't seen it since I added code to limit the number of concurrent
traceroutes.  That adds weight to the theory that the bug occurred when
the system ran out of memory.

I haven't tested recent version of FreeBSD.

On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Todd Hansen wrote:

> I have forgotten how far we tested, maybe tony knows. I think we tested
> with 4.0 cron? I know we stopped playing with the bug well before 4.3 was
> released. We were never able to find a version which did not exhibit the
> bug. However, the problem was very rare and we can only see it because of
> the number of machines we are running. I don't know if we have seen the
> bug recently though.
> 	-todd
> 
> 
> On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 mike@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> 
> > Synopsis: problem with 3.0-RELEASE cron forgetting jobs
> > 
> > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
> > State-Changed-By: mike
> > State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 21 17:12:34 PDT 2001
> > State-Changed-Why: 
> > 
> > Does this problem still occur in newer versions of FreeBSD,
> > such as 4.3-RELEASE?
> > 
> > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17134
> > 
> 
> 

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