From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 18 21:49:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA13454 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:49:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from isabase.philol.msu.ru (isabase.philol.msu.ru [195.208.217.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA13437 for ; Wed, 18 Nov 1998 21:49:20 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grg@philol.msu.ru) Received: from localhost (grg@localhost) by isabase.philol.msu.ru (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id IAA04036; Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:48:20 +0300 (MSK) (envelope-from grg@philol.msu.ru) X-Authentication-Warning: isabase.philol.msu.ru: grg owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1998 08:48:19 +0300 (MSK) From: Grigoriy Strokin To: garman@earthling.net cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: more dying daemons In-Reply-To: <199811190247.SAA25805@hub.freebsd.org> 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 I have the same problem. However, my 'current' version is a bit old, so the daemons are a bit more stable. They do this 1-4 times per week. ftpd,sshd and inetd, exactly as your describe. Moreover, inetd has a more interesting behaviour sometimes: it can work good a day or longer then issue approx. 200 messages in 2 seconds about "exit on signal 11", then any logging activity disappears... Grigoriy. On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 garman@earthling.net wrote: > On 18 Nov, I wrote: > > > > I'm still having the problems I described earlier. > > inetd, samba, and ssh exhibit symptoms where they wither away and die > > after a certain amount of time, and this is easily and rapidly > > reproducible (in the space of only an hour my freshly-started inetd will > > begin to die each time it forks...) > > > while sitting here trying to find a common thread through all this > mess... > > it appears to happen only with servers that fork() copies of themselves > on incoming requests. > > inetd does this, samba does this, and sshd does this. consequently, > inetd dies, samba dies, and sshd dies :) > > however, servers that *don't* fork off a new connection on incoming > requests don't die. > > a good example is mysql. i've never had a problem with it dying, even > though it gets swapped out much more often than the other servers (it > is rarely used)... another example is httpd which only has problems > when its heavily used (i'm guessing that it has run out of pre-forked > copies and has to fork off new children) > > so, it looks like a problem where parts of a daemon are swapped out and > then when the daemon forks, some of the pages are never paged back in? > i dunno, a guess at least :) > > that should help narrow down the source of the problem dramatically. > when i get a free moment i'll try going through the commits on various > parts of the vm subsystem and see what i can dig up... > > enjoy > -- > Jason Garman http://garman.dyn.ml.org/ > Student, University of Maryland garman@earthling.net > And now... did you know that: Whois: JAG145 > "If you fart consistently for 6 years and 9 months, enough gas is > produced to create the energy of an atomic bomb." -- 0xdeadbeef posting > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > === Grigoriy Strokin, Lomonosov University (MGU), Moscow === === contact info: http://isabase.philol.msu.ru/~grg/ === To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message