From owner-freebsd-current Sun Nov 8 08:13:50 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA23982 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 08:13:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA23977 for ; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 08:13:48 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA10606; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 17:13:19 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id RAA05017; Sun, 8 Nov 1998 17:13:19 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981108171319.19261@follo.net> Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1998 17:13:19 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: dg@root.com Cc: John Fieber , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug References: <19981108160934.30826@follo.net> <199811081517.HAA03267@root.com> <19981108165023.60036@follo.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <19981108165023.60036@follo.net>; from Eivind Eklund on Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 04:50:23PM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 04:50:23PM +0100, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Sun, Nov 08, 1998 at 07:17:11AM -0800, David Greenman wrote: > > If the application (phk malloc or the caller of malloc?) isn't > > prepared for this, it may end up with a NULL pointer that it doesn't > > expect - perhaps not even tripping over it until sometime later. > > I'm pretty sure this is not the problem. Inactive daemons seems start > dying, and I don't always get the "out of swap space" message that > comes with setting swap_pager_full. Oh, and another aspect: This suddenly started happening. It has been stable for 3/4 of a year, and then suddenly started happening reproducably one day, after a kernel update while John was doing his changes. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message