Re: net-acct problem
On Mon, 27 Oct 1997, Thomas Baetzler wrote:
> Rolf Obrecht wrote:
> :messages in kern.log:
>
> Maybe you could provide more info on the
> hardware configuration you're running (i.e. memory, CPU, network adapters).
>
It is a 486DX2/66 with 16MB and two SMC Ultra ethernet cards, running
nothing but some daemons (like nacctd), no X, no user accounts
> causes could be
> - a buggy network adapter driver;
> - low memory situations where a buffer doesn't get allocated;
> - race conditions due to CPU overload where the buffer gets purged due to
> a queue overflow.
>
We had some trouble on the LAN; a hub filled all of the bandwidth with
silly messages, so that ping from/to machines within the LAN produced 70%
packet loss. Could this be an explanation for a buffer overflow with
causes nacctd to die?
> problem like an overclocked/faked CPU, or a defective cache. Those can be
GCC works fine (several kernels compiled w/o err's)
Thanks!
Rolf Obrecht
Institut fuer Elektrische Maschinen
RWTH Aachen
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