Date: Thu, 30 Apr 1998 21:24:33 -0400 (EDT) From: "David E. Cross" <dec@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> To: Robert Withrow <witr@rwwa.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: SIGDANGER Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980430211928.117A-100000@phoenix.its.rpi.edu> In-Reply-To: <199804302321.TAA15478@spooky.rwwa.com>
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> drosih@rpi.edu said: > :- If what we're implementing is basically the same as AIX's SIGDANGER, > :- then I'd just as soon call it SIGDANGER. > > I must be really stupid. I do builds of the same software package > on SunOs, Solaris, FreeBSD(2.2.x), HPUX, and AIX. These machines are > simliarly configured with memory, etc, and all of the file space > is NFS mounted. > > The builds on all of the machines *except* AIX *always* run to > completion. The AIX box will sometimes complete and sometimes > not, and sometimes I have to re-start builds two or three times. > (You can't imagine how annoying it is to get messages like: > "my build failed!!! What did you do to the build?" when it is just > stupid AIX shooting innocent processes!) > > If this is such a great idea, why is it such a pain in the ass? > > Also, why have I never encountered FreeBSD doing this random > process killin thing, nomatter *how* much load I put on it? > > Just asking... Curious, I have never haid AIX shoot a build on me, I have never had AIX kill a random process on me unless the system was really taxed, and it has been *obvious* that the system is taxed; and I have had FreeBSD do similar to me when really pounding on it a random server process will usualy die (usually LPD). We could make this an "OPTION". BTW: If no one has claimed this project, I would like it... including finishing up the extended signal handling. (Yes, AFS work continues, I am almost to the point of a clean compile, having problems now with liblwp and context switching... but more of that this weekend :) -- David Cross To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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