Re: 20020213: [Fwd: 20020207: missing products]

Harry Edmon wrote:
> 
> I had to make some changes to /etc/nsswitch.conf - your changes goofed up our
> NFS mounts.
> 

Oops.  Very sorry about that.  We three looked at the fix, and now will
know better.


> I found the DEC Alpha problem.  What is happening is occasionally the write on
> line 439 of ulog/ulog.c is returning a -1 with errno of 55 - No buffer space
> available.  The program then calls closeulog, which closes the log and sets
> logFd to -1.  The following code then does a fork and tries to write to the
> console.  I believe the waitpid at the of this code fails when a signal occurs
> in the server before the child finishes (there seems to be a bunch of SIGCONTs
> going on), and nothing ever goes back and does a wait - thus the zombie
> processes.
> 
> There are probably a number of ways to fix what happens when the write error
> occurs - but I leave that to you.  It also may be possible to increase the
> buffer space on the Alpha for the logging calls.
> 

Thanks very much for tracking this down!  This will be very helpful.


> But, I am now tracking down a different bug in the LDM in Linux - I am trying 
> to
> parallel the setup on air on a Linux box.  When I start up the LDM it tries to
> get data from all the same sources.  Two of the sources (which are schools)
> don't currently have this machine listed as authorized to get data from them.
> But instead of just waiting and trying again the processes asking for the 
> feeds
> are using large amounts of CPU time.  I will let you know if I find this bug.
> 

Again, I really appreciate your effort in uncovering and tracking bugs.

I'm disappointed to report that the nsswitch.conf change does not appear
to have fixed the problem.  At first I was excited because it did not
occur for 8 hours after the change, but after that it occured at least 4
times.  I guess it's time to move to plan C, as soon as I figure out
what that is...


Anne
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