Date: Tue, 13 Oct 1998 12:48:45 +0200 From: Eivind Eklund <eivind@yes.no> To: alk@pobox.com Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, dg@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd is ill? syslogd is anemic? Message-ID: <19981013124845.25955@follo.net> In-Reply-To: <13859.2587.145715.385630@avalon.east>; from Tony Kimball on Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:15:06AM -0500 References: <13854.19308.314677.685227@avalon.east> <199810092335.TAA25121@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> <13854.56585.707371.316487@avalon.east> <19981010200607.56951@follo.net> <13859.2587.145715.385630@avalon.east>
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On Tue, Oct 13, 1998 at 03:15:06AM -0500, Tony Kimball wrote: > Quoth Eivind Eklund on Sat, 10 October: > : This is a known, OLD bug. It was one of the bugs introduced or > : exposed by John Dysons changes to the VM system. He was working on > : this at the time he left, if I understood correctly. > > Thanks. I can confirm that you have correctly diagnosed the problem, > in as much as killing and restarting inetd stopped it from happenning > to inetd -- the disease moved on to syslogd. Similarly, restarting > syslogd fixed that, and a few hours later it moved on to sendmail. > Restarting sendmail has kept it away for the past hour or two. Check out what is eating your memory. Likely a restart of X will free up enough memory that it won't re-occur for a long time - netscape tend to make X leak (in what may be an interaction with the VM system, possibly through vfork()). > : My machine is a PPro-based box - I don't know if this matter. I seem > : to remember it also happening after I upgraded to 80MB; I know it > : happened when I had 64MB, at least. > > Mine is dual PPro 64MB as well, so this config is likely to make it > easier to reproduce. Meanwhile, I think I'll upgrade my memory > (as Garrett Wollman suggested) after all, and see if it goes away -- > although like as not a kernel update and recompile will suffice. I've not seen any commits that should fix it, and I've been on the lookout for them. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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