Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:20:45 PDT From: "Michael Imamura" <troogzork@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? Message-ID: <19980824152046.24903.qmail@hotmail.com>
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Would this be related to my problem of cron all of a sudden dying off repeatedly, sometimes every few minutes, after the system has been compiling for a while? - Michael Imamura Ucod Data Systems http://i.am/ucod/ >Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 10:13:46 -0400 (EDT) >From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> >To: Pierre Beyssac <Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr> >Cc: Alexander Sanda <entropy@compufit.at>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? > ><<On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:58:16 +0200, Pierre Beyssac <Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr> said: > >> Under out of memory conditions, inetd tends to fall in a weird >> state. Apparently this is an interaction between the malloc library >> and inetd, but nobody has managed yet to find out exactly what >> happens. Maybe error checking is lacking somewhere. > >No, this is the ``daemons dying'' bug which nobody has fixed yet. >When the system runs out of swap, some random selection of processes >which are in swap get corrupted. Usually this results in a daemon >which dies whenever it fork()s, but sometimes it is manifested as >other sorts of corruption. The message you see from realloc is >indicative of a corrupted pointer. > >-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-current" in the body of the message > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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