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From: michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc,comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains
Subject: Re: Oh those funny hacks (Re: named running out of memory)
Date: 17 Nov 1995 05:26:27 GMT
Organization: HeadCandy Associates... Sweets for the lobes.
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In article <VIXIE.95Nov16080902@wisdom.vix.com> vixie@vix.com (Paul A Vixie) writes:
>Another two processes wasted because some other one is broken. Sigh. :-)
But, but... does cron ever actually die? If so I sure would like to know.
We had (well, they still have -- I'm not there anymore) a DECstation
running Ultrix at Iowa State that serves as ftp.iastate.edu, which
would stay up for literally months without anyone doing any real
maintenance on it. Maybe tweak a mirror script or something.
Every now and then we would notice that sup wasn't being run, and sure
enough, found that cron had disappeared. Dunno if it died because of
an internal bug, or because of the machine running out of swap
(unlikely), or who knows...
It only happened very occasionally, and after the machine had been
running for many weeks at a time. But it did happen several times.
And, it was Ultrix -- not exactly cutting edge as far as BSD is
concerned. For what it's worth...
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Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@HeadCandy.com
--< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >--
NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, HP300, Sun3, Sun4,
DEC PMAX (MIPS), DEC Alpha, PC532
NetBSD ports in progress: VAX, Atari 68k, others...
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