Re: kernel panic/paging error
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 10:33:50AM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>
> I am seeing this, too, but it's news to me. Today is the first time I really
> saw it happen.
>
> pflocal get's suddenly nervous, and memory usage blows up, within a few
> seconds it sucks up all availalable RAM, and then swap (but slower). I saw a
> swap decrease of 4 MB every few seconds.
>
> The described scenario sounds familiar. I've seen it happening for
> quite some time. I just thought it had something to do with
> /hurd/term and pseudo terminals. But no hard evidence for that. Are
> you guys sure it is pflocal?
Well, it's pflocal which gets all the memory, but this could be a symptom,
not the cause. It's hard to tell.
> It's hard to get diagnostic info at this stage. I could run one "ps aux",
> which showed a memory usage of 66 MB, but after that, I could not get the
> number of ports nor the number of threads. I will try to get more info.
>
> Yes please!
As I said, everytime it happens (and I am not sure how to trigger it), I can
do perhaps one or two commands.
> Maybe it is related to the pflocal changes without the corresponding new
> glibc, and updating glibc fixes that.
>
> Probably not. It has been happening to me since before tinkering with
> pflocal.
Ok, that's a word.
Thanks,
Marcus
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