Date: Fri, 6 Nov 1998 15:50:30 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Robey <chuckr@mat.net> To: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9811061549150.300-100000@picnic.mat.net> In-Reply-To: <19981106183112.27770@follo.net>
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On Fri, 6 Nov 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Fri, Nov 06, 1998 at 12:12:14PM -0500, John Fieber wrote: > > I've now figured out that it must be the infamous dying daemons > > bug that is biting me, and pretty bad. Inetd won't run more than > > a day without falling over. Sendmail and apache last longer, but > > not a lot. > > > > So, to date, what is known about the bug? > > It strike when you run out of memory, usually. > > > Are there people running 3.0/Current that have not encountered > > this bug? > > > > Are there any known factors in a system configuration that > > aggrivate the problem? More to the point, is there anything > > known to suppress the problem to any degree? Some say it was > > present in 2.2.x, but I never encountered it. > > Run with insane amounts of swap. 2GB ought to do the trick. I'm not > guaranteeing this will stop the problem, but it will make it _much_ > less frequent. > > Eivind, who increased from 128MB to 256MB swap, and had the problem > almost go away... David Greenman committed some fixes a couple weeks back which he speculated *might* have an effect on this. John, is your stuff newer than that? Or any anyone noticed the inetd thing since then? I can dig up the commit message, if you need it. > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > > ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Chuck Robey | Interests include any kind of voice or data chuckr@glue.umd.edu | communications topic, C programming, and Unix. 213 Lakeside Drive Apt T-1 | Greenbelt, MD 20770 | I run Journey2 and picnic (FreeBSD-current) (301) 220-2114 | and jaunt (NetBSD). ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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