From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 9 11:53:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA03343 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:53:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA03327 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:53:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA12521; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:49:15 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 14:49:15 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <199807091849.OAA12521@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Bill Fenner , jher@io.com, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/6858 In-Reply-To: <242.900009266@critter.freebsd.dk> References: <98Jul9.110637pdt.177515@crevenia.parc.xerox.com> <242.900009266@critter.freebsd.dk> Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: >> I don't know if I buy this - I've seen too many reports of this problem >> from too many people (and, in fact, I've seen it too). > In this case inetd was only one of the problems. > inetd still have a memory management problem. I don't necessarily believe this. I believe that the ``daemons dying'' problem of a few months ago is still with us, and it is silently corrupting the in-memory images of binaries which get swapped out in response to a memory shortage, and then fork. I was never able to determine the exact conditions which provoked it, but something was clearly wrong as recently as a June 6th kernel. (I could easily recognize this because my news transit box, when it was running diablo, would periodically fall over because cron stopped. -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message