2.0.38 socket issues

Jerry Geis (geisj@pagestation.com)
Sun, 24 Oct 1999 19:07:29 -0500

I have a socket connected on a port
that is working just fine. However
I saw an error status come back from
a write() system call of 27 which
is EFBIG. What does that mean to me?
I know it means file to big but I should
not be writing anything bigger than 1500
bytes on socket at a time.

Also, If memory is getting low does
the kernel send a SIGTERM to elected
processes? Does the kernel ever send
a SIGTERM to processes without a
shutdown or requested by the user?
My program has caught a SIGTERM being
sent to it. It was not by me and I was not shutting down? Curious?

I have also seen after looking at "ps ax"
that it is reporting a STATUS of DWN.
where D is uninterruptable sleep. How
can I get rid of this process? And what
caused it to be uniterruptable? I'm
not doing anything weird in my program.

Thanks,

PLease CC me directly.

I use 2.0.38, slackware 3.5.

Jerry Geis

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