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Date:      Wed, 18 Nov 1998 19:39:50 -0500 (EST)
From:      garman@earthling.net
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   more dying daemons
Message-ID:  <199811190040.QAA12276@hub.freebsd.org>

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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...)

obviously, this is quite an annoying problem.  I have a debugging
version of inetd compiled, along with samba.  I'll repost my samba
backtraces if they'll help.  inetd gives the "junk pointer: too high to
make sense" messages before it dies.  I'm still figuring out how to
debug that problem, as it dies before I can attach to it with gdb.

what can I do to help diagnose/fix these problems?

This is on -current as of ~2 days ago.  (my machine has been up since 
then, and the problems only get worse the longer the machine has been
up)

my swap usage is:
Device      1024-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
/dev/wd0s1b       69632    49032    20472    71%    Interleaved
/dev/wd2s1b       81920    47568    34224    58%    Interleaved
Total            151296    96600    54696    64%

Mem: 54M Active, 2596K Inact, 16M Wired, 1664K Cache, 2844K Buf, 18M Free
Swap: 148M Total, 94M Used, 53M Free, 64% Inuse

and i do have one "suggest more swap" message in my logs:
Nov 16 21:54:32 jason /kernel: swap_pager: suggest more swap space: 190 MB

along with an "interesting" message from sshd (1.2.26):
Nov 18 20:39:32 jason sshd[90364]: fatal: xmalloc: out of memory (allocating 107
3675515 bytes)
(oddly enough it isn't even 8pm yet, weird. unrelated problem? :))

and many instances of inetd dying on sigsegv's.

please, i'm willing to give people accounts on this machine, do
debugging, test patches, whatever it takes.  just tell me what
data/information you need or point me in the right direction.

i had none of these problems when i ran 2.2-stable a while back, on the
same hardware.

thanks,
-- 
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


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