From owner-freebsd-current Sun Aug 9 23:26:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA16259 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:26:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from burka.carrier.kiev.ua (burka.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.107]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16221 for ; Sun, 9 Aug 1998 23:25:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archer@grape.carrier.kiev.ua) Received: from kozlik.carrier.kiev.ua (kozlik.carrier.kiev.ua [193.193.193.111]) by burka.carrier.kiev.ua (8.9.0/8.Who.Cares) with ESMTP id JAA14593 for ; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:25:24 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by kozlik.carrier.kiev.ua (8.9.0/8.9.0/8.Who.Cares) with UUCP id JAA25358 for current@freebsd.org; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:23:21 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from archer@localhost) by grape.carrier.kiev.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA07064; Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:11:24 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from archer) Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 09:11:24 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander Litvin Message-Id: <199808100611.JAA07064@grape.carrier.kiev.ua> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Reminder : can't fork X-Newsgroups: grape.freebsd.current In-Reply-To: <199808092253.PAA07594@rah.star-gate.com> Organization: Lucky Grape User-Agent: tin/pre-1.4-980202 (UNIX) (FreeBSD/3.0-CURRENT (i386)) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <199808092253.PAA07594@rah.star-gate.com> you wrote: AH> Well okay, lets see if others report the same problem. Hmm, description of the problem was quite short, so I didn't understand whether that was notorious "daemons dying". If it is, who said it is gone? And it seemed to me, that agreement was achieved on that it cannot be explained just by memory overcommit. I don't mind if the system kill my processes when out of swap, but why should all forked sendmails get SIGSEGV 8 hours after the "out of swap" condition was gone? It is easy to reproduce. What looks strange to me is the following. I wrote a "dummy" daemon -- just simple prog which daemonised and then periodically forked to do some dummy work. I tought it whould be easier to debug the problem with simple prog. I have not been able to make it fail. Though sendmail and cron still die. What is different between them and my daemon? AH> I will play with my system tonite when I get home from work. AH> Cheers, AH> Amancio --- Unix is the worst operating system; except for all others. -- Berry Kercheval To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message