From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Aug 23 15:20:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from byerley.cs.waikato.ac.nz (byerley.cs.waikato.ac.nz [130.217.248.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 615D137B443; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 15:20:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tonym@byerley.cs.waikato.ac.nz) Received: from tonym (helo=localhost) by byerley.cs.waikato.ac.nz with local-esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 15a2pE-00026z-00; Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:19:44 +1200 Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:19:44 +1200 (NZST) From: Tony McGregor To: Todd Hansen Cc: mike@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/17134: problem with 3.0-RELEASE cron forgetting jobs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org We haven't seen it since I added code to limit the number of concurrent traceroutes. That adds weight to the theory that the bug occurred when the system ran out of memory. I haven't tested recent version of FreeBSD. On Mon, 6 Aug 2001, Todd Hansen wrote: > I have forgotten how far we tested, maybe tony knows. I think we tested > with 4.0 cron? I know we stopped playing with the bug well before 4.3 was > released. We were never able to find a version which did not exhibit the > bug. However, the problem was very rare and we can only see it because of > the number of machines we are running. I don't know if we have seen the > bug recently though. > -todd > > > On Sat, 21 Jul 2001 mike@FreeBSD.org wrote: > > > Synopsis: problem with 3.0-RELEASE cron forgetting jobs > > > > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback > > State-Changed-By: mike > > State-Changed-When: Sat Jul 21 17:12:34 PDT 2001 > > State-Changed-Why: > > > > Does this problem still occur in newer versions of FreeBSD, > > such as 4.3-RELEASE? > > > > http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=17134 > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tony McGregor Mail: T.McGregor@cs.waikato.ac.nz Department of Computer Science Phone: +64 7 838 4651 Waikato University Fax: +64 7 858 5095 Private Bag 3105 Home: +64 7 825 5040 mobile: (021)313004 Hamilton, New Zealand www: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tonym ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message