From owner-freebsd-current Thu Aug 27 16:40:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA27283 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:40:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from zippy.dyn.ml.org (sf3-10.ppp.wenet.net [206.15.84.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA27265 for ; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:40:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) Received: from localhost (garbanzo@localhost) by zippy.dyn.ml.org (8.9.1/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA01556; Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:41:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from garbanzo@hooked.net) X-Authentication-Warning: zippy.dyn.ml.org: garbanzo owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1998 16:41:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Alex X-Sender: garbanzo@zippy.dyn.ml.org To: Alexander Sanda cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? In-Reply-To: <19980824111923.A207@compufit.at> 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 On Mon, 24 Aug 1998, Alexander Sanda wrote: [...] > Ok, what happened ? > While I was playing with the KDE newsreader (krn), I encountered a bug > in krn, probably caused by some kind of infinite recursion or similar. The quick answer is, similar to the answer "what do I do; it hurts when I put my finger in my ear": don't do that. krn, as-is, will indeed eat gobs of RAM on big newsgroups (2000+ messages IIRC). Add more swap space, debug krn, or just don't grab that many subject headers. - alex | "Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern | | technology. Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat." | | Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org/ | To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message