Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-14 Thread Jaime
On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jaime wrote: Its probably SpamAssassin, which is run against every incoming message. This causes it to have lots of copies in memory at once and to run/quit very often. I don't

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-14 Thread Kent Stewart
On Saturday 13 December 2003 11:52 pm, Jaime wrote: On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 01:40 AM, Gautam Gopalakrishnan wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 12:19:19AM -0500, Jaime wrote: Its probably SpamAssassin, which is run against every incoming message. This causes it to have lots of

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-14 Thread jaime
On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Kent Stewart wrote: Well, there is this piece of info in /usr/src/UPDATING 20030904: Between August 9th and August 30th, a bug existed in the i386 virtual memory system which could cause panics under load. Anyone running a kernel built between

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-14 Thread Kent Stewart
On Sunday 14 December 2003 01:16 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Kent Stewart wrote: Well, there is this piece of info in /usr/src/UPDATING 20030904: Between August 9th and August 30th, a bug existed in the i386 virtual memory system which could cause

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:50 PM, Jaime wrote: current process = 26642 (perl5.00503) any idea what perl-based job is running and if moving to a newer perl version would have any effect at all? -- Paul Beard www.paulbeard.org/ paulbeard [at] mac.com

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread Jaime
On Sunday, December 14, 2003, at 12:10 AM, paul beard wrote: On Dec 13, 2003, at 8:50 PM, Jaime wrote: current process = 26642 (perl5.00503) any idea what perl-based job is running and if moving to a newer perl version would have any effect at all? Its probably SpamAssassin, which is

Re: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread paul beard
On Dec 13, 2003, at 9:19 PM, Jaime wrote: (I don't see why a user-space process would interfere with kernel resource management.) me, either, but it seemed worth looking into. since this seems to be related to swapping, how much real memory vs swap do you have? do you have any idea how much

RE: Page faults every few days

2003-12-13 Thread Minnesota Slinky
Jaime, Perhaps you should consider updating your sources. You're using a PRERELEASE version of 4.9. zeus# uname -a FreeBSD zeus.cairodurham.org 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #9: Tue Aug 26 14:01:09 EDT 2003 Eric F Crist President AdTech Integrated Systems, Inc (612) 998-3588