From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 24 08:21:33 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA09629 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:21:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from hotmail.com (f222.hotmail.com [207.82.251.113]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id IAA09616 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:21:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troogzork@hotmail.com) Received: (qmail 24904 invoked by uid 0); 24 Aug 1998 15:20:46 -0000 Message-ID: <19980824152046.24903.qmail@hotmail.com> Received: from 204.253.137.241 by www.hotmail.com with HTTP; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:20:45 PDT X-Originating-IP: [204.253.137.241] From: "Michael Imamura" To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:20:45 PDT Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 >To: Pierre Beyssac >Cc: Alexander Sanda , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG >Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? > >< 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