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Date:      Sun, 8 Nov 1998 05:38:57 -0800 (PST)
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no>
Cc:        Russell Cattelan <cattelan@thebarn.com>, John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: The infamous dying daemons bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.95.981108053807.11891C-100000@current1.whistle.com>
In-Reply-To: <19981108140935.06929@follo.net>

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We've been having a problem with daemons dying with sig11 singe at least
mid 97 with 486DX100 boxen.

julian


On Sun, 8 Nov 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 04:28:07PM -0600, Russell Cattelan wrote:
> > I've been complaining about this problem since January.
> 
> The 'dying daemons bug', not the 'inetd crashes/gives "junk pointer"
> messages' bug?
> 
> Let's list the facts we have here:
> * Problem first spotted in January
> 
> * Problem occur on my PPro box with the combinations
> 	- 64MB RAM/128MB swap
> 	- 64MB RAM/256 MB swap (much less frequently than with 128MB swap)
> 	- 80MB RAM/256 MB swap (seems more frequent than with
> 	  64MB/256MB, but I have not recorded how it behaves, so I
> 	  can't really say)
> 	I've got a PPro 200 (Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x617  Stepping=7)
> * Problem occur on a P200MMX (Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x543  Stepping=3)
> 	with 96MB RAM and 200MB swap
> * Problem has never occured on a P133 (unknown stepping) with 24MB RAM
> 	and 64MB swap.
> * Problem occur with both IDE and a bunch of different SCSI cards
> 	(thus it seems we can eliminate the disk system)
> 
> I know of three pieces of hardware I have that I've not yet gotten
> confirmation that other doesn't have:
> (1) AWE64 soundboard
> (2) TV card
> (3) Network card - a PCI ed (though I changed to this later than first
>     seeing the bugs, I think...)
> 
> Eivind.
> 
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