On Monday 20 May 2002 12:16 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Skip,
>
> Let's see if I understand this.
>
> If you just fire up the workstation, it runs for many days with
> no problem.
>
> If you try to run snmp to monitor memory usage, the workstation
> locks up.  Either after 150 minutes or 300 minutes, depending
> on your method of gathering the memory data.
>
> It would be interesting to see how 'locked up' the workstation is.
>
> Can you ping it ?
>
The locked up, was: screensaver frozen, keyboard unresponsive, mouse dead, 
and not responding to SNMP requests. In the case of the bash run, the 
screensaver was also frozen and the client stopped posting answers in the log 
file. 

I'll have to rerun the experiment again to let you know the answers. The 
workstation was my Macintosh 6100/66 with 36MB physical memory and 100 MB 
swap on a local hard drive. The kernel was a 2.4.5 version (actually 
2.4.6-pre3) so it's possible that the swapping code is the culprit. I think 
the reason I didn't see the problem before is that I wasn't doing any 
swapping. (I also have linux installed on the same machine. I can also run 
with the local linux and see what happens.) But yes, doing data capture was 
not benign. My reason in posting was just as a heads up.

Etushi Kato has just released a new kernel based on 2.4.13 which I want to 
try. I also have a PII system I could try with the i386 code, but then I'd 
have to add support for SNMP and local swapping.

--Skip

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