Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 12:06:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: "Michael Imamura" <troogzork@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? Message-ID: <199808241606.MAA28618@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <19980824152046.24903.qmail@hotmail.com> References: <19980824152046.24903.qmail@hotmail.com>
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<<On Mon, 24 Aug 1998 08:20:45 PDT, "Michael Imamura" <troogzork@hotmail.com> said: > 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? Yes. If cron gets into this state, then it will segfault every five minutes as it attempts to run atrun. [I wrote:] >> 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
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