Re: Problems in 2.2.11?

Mike Eldridge (diz@cafes.net)
Sat, 21 Aug 1999 14:27:23 -0500 (CDT)


Talk about a hard to find bug. If it is specifically limited to SMP
RedHat-6.0 systems, could it be related to SMP-specific code in glibc 2.1?

I hate memory leaks. =(

Mike

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On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Robert A. Hayden wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Mike Eldridge wrote:
>
> > I had been running 2.2.9 for several weeks with no problem. I had not yet
> > compiled quota support into the kernel, so I decided that I would go ahead
> > and move to 2.2.11 while I was at it.
> >
> > The box stays up for about 2 days and then I get a massive memory failure.
> > Everything runs out of memory. All services are unavailable, console
> > login is impossible, even mingetty stops responding, the machine grinds to
> > a halt. Hard reset is the only way out. =( I've had this problem twice
> > now with 2.2.11. Up for two days, then runs out of memory, hard reset.
>
> I had the same problem with Geek.NET (dual PII-400/256mb/RH6.0) and had to
> step back down to 2.2.10 to get a stable system (up for 4 days now, no
> problems). From what I've seen and heard about this, it seems limited to
> SMP machines and maybe be specific to RH6.0-based systems.
>
> =-=-=-=-=-=
> Robert Hayden rhayden@geek.net UIN: 16570192
>

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