Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 20:15:52 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander Litvin <archer@lucky.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reminder : can't fork Message-ID: <199808101715.UAA06899@grape.carrier.kiev.ua> In-Reply-To: <199808091933.MAA07114@rah.star-gate.com> <199808092020.NAA07708@antipodes.cdrom.com> <19980810084921.21729@follo.net>
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In article <19980810084921.21729@follo.net> you wrote:
EE> On Sun, Aug 09, 1998 at 01:20:11PM -0700, Mike Smith wrote:
>> >
>> > Occassionally, my system refuses to fork and pending on what I was doing
>> > daemons such as sendmail die -- usually this is after I tried to compile
>> > a big program such as mozilla however I have seen the bug surfaced when
>> > I think I have not exhausted my swap space unfortunately most of the times
>> > this happens I am at work and it is really hard to diagnose the problem.
>> >
>> > This problem has been around for about 6 months now.
>>
>> Pilot error. Your resource limits are too low.
EE> Actually, it sound suspiciously like the old 'split page' bug where there
EE> would be problems with forking after you had had a swap space exhaustion.
EE> This was really easy to repoduce - after you ran out of swap, all daemons
EE> would die when they tried to fork. You had to restart them to get them to
EE> work again.
I'm as sure as hell this bug is still in CURRENT. Everybody can see it
himself. It ease easy to exhaust one's swap. If after that at list in
50% of cases forked sendmails don't die with SIGSEGV I'll eat my heat.
EE> If this still can happen in some cases, it is _extremely_ important that we
EE> get it fixed - IMO, we can't send out 3.0 with this kind of bug in it :-(
EE> Eivind.
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