From owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Wed Jan 27 16:59:31 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3DBA70D2B for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:59:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpokala@mac.com) Received: from mr11p00im-asmtp003.me.com (mr11p00im-asmtp003.me.com [17.110.69.254]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 89D2E1E18 for ; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:59:31 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rpokala@mac.com) Received: from [192.168.1.4] (c-24-6-178-251.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [24.6.178.251]) by mr11p00im-asmtp003.me.com (Oracle Communications Messaging Server 7.0.5.36.0 64bit (built Sep 8 2015)) with ESMTPSA id <0O1M002TYCF0PK30@mr11p00im-asmtp003.me.com> for freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org; Wed, 27 Jan 2016 15:59:25 +0000 (GMT) X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:,, definitions=2016-01-27_04:,, signatures=0 X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 clxscore=1011 suspectscore=0 malwarescore=0 phishscore=0 adultscore=0 bulkscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx scancount=1 engine=8.0.1-1510270003 definitions=main-1601270264 User-Agent: Microsoft-MacOutlook/0.0.0.160109 Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 07:59:23 -0800 Subject: Re: syslogd(8) with OOM Killer protection From: Ravi Pokala Sender: "Pokala, Ravi" To: "freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org" Message-id: <9A913658-E90C-4B85-B73B-F3F7D3004344@panasas.com> Thread-topic: syslogd(8) with OOM Killer protection MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.20 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 16:59:31 -0000 -----Original Message----- >Date: Wed, 27 Jan 2016 11:35:38 +0100 >From: Jan Bramkamp >To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org >Subject: Re: syslogd(8) with OOM Killer protection >Message-ID: <56A89D7A.8080906@rlwinm.de> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed > >On 27/01/16 09:27, Pavel Timofeev wrote: >>... >> >I would prefer to implement the a flag keeping cron (and all other base >system daemons) from double-forking and run it under a process >supervisor like daemontools. We've recently added that to `syslogd' (r279567, 2015-03-03). I think we also have internal changes (not committed to -HEAD yet) which adds a "run in foreground" option to a few other daemons. -Ravi (rpokala@)