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Date:      Wed, 6 Nov 1996 19:10:23 -0800 (PST)
From:      asami@freebsd.org (Satoshi Asami)
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   yp_next failure
Message-ID:  <199611070310.TAA24792@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>

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I noticed that a lot of user processes started dying due to high
network load.  For instance, I get things like this:

===
>> rlogin vader
Last login: Wed Nov  6 18:41:44 from 136.152.64.181
yp_next: clnt_call: RPC: Timed out

rlogin: connection closed.
===

and this is in /var/log/messages:

===
Nov  6 18:43:16 vader /kernel: pid 22470 (login), uid 0: exited on signal 11
===

Other processes that died today were (this is just a small part of the 
log):

===
Nov  6 15:40:31 vader /kernel: pid 852 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:40:48 vader /kernel: pid 856 (from), uid 5531: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:41:05 vader /kernel: pid 863 (ssh), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:26 vader /kernel: pid 994 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:39 vader /kernel: pid 1019 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:40 vader /kernel: pid 1021 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:41 vader /kernel: pid 1029 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:41 vader /kernel: pid 1025 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:41 vader /kernel: pid 1027 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:41 vader /kernel: pid 1026 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:41 vader /kernel: pid 1024 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:48:49 vader /kernel: pid 1017 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:51:27 vader /kernel: pid 1436 (ssh), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:53:41 vader /kernel: pid 1653 (xterm), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 15:55:26 vader /kernel: pid 1791 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
Nov  6 16:03:42 vader /kernel: pid 1888 (mailq), uid 0: exited on signal 11
Nov  6 16:55:11 vader /kernel: pid 3804 (cron), uid 0: exited on signal 11 (core dumped)
Nov  6 16:55:41 vader /kernel: pid 3805 (sendmail), uid 0: exited on signal 11
===

Are these many programs supposed to die when a YP lookup has failed?
The network has been congested lately, but I haven't seen this kind of 
mass suicide until just recently.

Satoshi



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