From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Dec 14 00:56:12 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 663CE16A4CE for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:56:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from rutger.owt.com (rutger.owt.com [204.118.6.16]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B3E843D1F for ; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:56:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@owt.com) Received: from topaz-out (owt-207-41-94-233.owt.com [207.41.94.233]) by rutger.owt.com (8.11.6p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id hBE8u3u11633; Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:56:03 -0800 From: Kent Stewart To: Jaime , Gautam Gopalakrishnan Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 00:56:02 -0800 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <6B1F15BC-2E0A-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> In-Reply-To: <6B1F15BC-2E0A-11D8-AD0A-000393193538@snowmoon.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200312140056.02821.kstewart@owt.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Page faults every few days X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 08:56:12 -0000 On Saturday 13 December 2003 11:52 pm, Jaime wrote: > On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: > > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jaime wrote: > >> Its probably SpamAssassin, which is run against every incoming > >> message. This causes it to have lots of copies in memory at once and > >> to run/quit very often. I don't think that updating Perl will help (I > >> don't see why a user-space process would interfere with kernel > >> resource > >> management.) and I has updated SpamAssassin several times since the > >> problem began. > > > > You probably know, maybe spamd is better than invoking > > so many perl instances > > This is actually what I'm doing. However, spamd is a perl process. > > zeus:jkikpole>ps auxww|grep spamd > root 822 0.0 3.8 21112 9924 ?? Is Tue09AM 2:15.08 > /usr/local/bin/spamd -a -c -d (perl5.00503) > > Odd.... For once we have less than 5 spamd processes running > concurrently. I guess that is what happens at a public school as > nearly 3am on a Sunday morning. :) > Well, there is this piece of info in /usr/src/UPDATING 20030904: Between August 9th and August 30th, a bug existed in the i386 virtual memory system which could cause panics under load. Anyone running a kernel built between those dates is advised to update at the earliest possible convenience. As some one suggested earlier, I think you should read the above item very closely. Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA http://users.owt.com/kstewart/index.html