Date: Fri, 25 Sep 1998 11:26:34 +0930 (CST) From: Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: VM out-of-swap problems Message-ID: <Pine.OSF.4.03.9809251119030.290-100000@mercury.physics.adelaide.edu.au>
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Is anyone actively working on the problems related to daemons dying after the system has used a large amount of swap (the old "inetd() in realloc: junk pointer" thing)? It seems to me that with the release just around the corner this is something which should be killed now, as it seems to be an easily repeatable problem for many people and would adversely impact many servers in the real world (e.g. potential DoS risk). If no-one has the time to look at this in their spare time, may I suggest to Jordan that he look at paying one of the VM experts (John Dyson?) to fix this problem before 3.0 rolls out the door? I am quite willing to run debugging patches if someone provides them to track down the problem, since I can repeat it quite easily over here (well, I haven't seen it since I allocated that extra 140MB of swap space, but I havent heard any reasons to believe the problem is gone without it). Kris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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