Re: 2.2.16 - Crash

From: James Stevenson (mistral@stevenson.zetnet.co.uk)
Date: Sat Aug 05 2000 - 19:36:20 EDT

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    Hi

    yep me to
    but still a bug in a program outside the
    kernel should not crash the machine !!

    cya
            James

    In local.kernel-list, you wrote:
    >Hello!
    >
    >I am already running named 8.2.2-p5 !
    >
    >thank you
    >richard
    >
    >> Hello James & Richard , Just which version of Bind/named are
    >> you running ? If is one of the older ones you may want to
    >> use 8.2.2-p5 just for security reasons . If it is an 4.x.x
    >> series then try 4.9.7 again for security reasons .
    >> Reason I asked is that it appears that just after a clearing of
    >> some stale cached records that the 'trying to ...' messages
    >> began appearing . I vaguily remember a memory problem with
    >> one of the 8.x.x series and there were several with 4.x.x series .
    >> Hth , JimL
    >>
    >> On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, James Stevenson wrote:
    >> > Hi
    >> > i have also been getting these it appears to be when the system
    >> > runs out of memory. i though that this was not meant to happen
    >> > under linux
    >> > it happens when overcommit is either on/off
    >> > i got around it by adding more swap space
    >> > but i would have though that the kernel should not
    >> > give out ram it does not have
    >> > cya
    >> > James
    >> >
    >> > >Aug 4 23:52:04 eule named[131]: Cleaned cache of 39 RRsets
    >> > >Aug 4 23:56:20 eule kernel: VM: do_try_to_free_pages failed for
    >> > > javac...
    >>
    >> ...snip...
    >>
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