From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Sep 18 18:13:48 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA17610 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:13:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA17589 for ; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:13:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA04143; Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:13:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Graham Wheeler cc: bright@hotjobs.com (Alfred Perlstein), hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD hanging/rebooting In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 18 Sep 1998 16:53:13 +0200." <199809181453.QAA03418@cdsec.com> Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 18:13:29 -0700 Message-ID: <4139.906167609@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > We have been basing our firewall on 2.2.2 since about a month after > it was released. We have a reasonably large number of firewalls installed, > The problem is occurring on about 4 of them, which have been handling > increasing loads over time. All of them have been running for at least six > months (previously on FreeBSD 2.1.6). > > Two have 32Mb RAM, and two have 64Mb. The swap space in each is calculated > as (16Mb + 2 x physical). If it's any consolation, I have seen this problem at a local ISP friend whom I help out from time to time and I'm no closer to fixing it either. It seems to be a combination of some bogus code in inetd and a low-resource condition, though just what that condition is it's hard to fathom since different people report different symptoms. To cite my ISP friend as an example, the errors started to occur most frequently when they lost a 2nd disk and the amount of available swap space decreased by half, then the problems started happening very frequently (and they run many web servers + some large perl5 CGI scripts there). Others, like yourself, report that it's not swap related at all. Gah. What to do?! - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message