Date: Sun, 19 Apr 1998 20:38:57 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> To: eivind@yes.no (Eivind Eklund) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VM scrambling pages if space is exceeded Message-ID: <199804200138.UAA02007@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <19980420024251.42870@follo.net> from Eivind Eklund at "Apr 20, 98 02:42:51 am"
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> On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 07:46:48PM +0200, Eivind Eklund wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 12:36:11PM -0500, Russell Cattelan wrote: > > > This problem has been cropping up with "current" for about the > > > last month. The basic problem shows up with daemon processes > > > coreing sortly after swap space is maxed out. > > > > [... snip of daemons sig11'ening...] > > > > > I wasn't sure if I had bad bits at some point but I have two systems > > > exhibiting the same behavior. > > > > I _had_ this problem, but it went away when I recompiled with the > > latest kernel sources (yesterday). At that point, I was out of date > > by a couple of weeks. > > This is incorrect. It has re-surfaced; it only took longer to occur > than it has before (which might just be random chance). > > John: if you need hardware details, setup details, a login, or want me > to run any experiments: Just ask (as long as it doesn't involve > significant risk of scrambling my filesystems ;-) > It is probably in the upper-level code. I'll start looking at it in the next few hours. I'll bug you if I need help :-). John To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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