On Sunday, 1. July 2001 17:10, you wrote: > I've seen this happen on some systems. It is an inetd bug afaik. > Do a "killall -9 nmbd" every time you restart inetd, for a workaround. > Or put it in the /etc/init.d/inetd script, as I did.
Ok, I'll do so... > > This continues for some hours every 10 minutes... > > Then: > > > > Jul 1 14:02:42 julia kernel: Out of Memory: Killed process 2455 > > (apache). even this a few times. But nothing else goes anymore... > > Weird, that part never occurred to me on any system. Is the machine > very low on physical memory, perhaps? Julia has 64MB of SDRAM. Sure today this yould be cheap to extend :-)) But this would through away the old modules, because there is no free slot... > > Notice: > > - 192.168.76.4 is the win95 compi from my neighbour. > > - 192.168.76.2 is my debian/testing box. > > - julia is running testing as well. > > - both debian/testing boxes do have kernel 2.4.2 > > 2.4 kernels have different swap allocation strategy. You need lots of > swap with 2.4, or you may find yourself running into surprise glass walls. Oh, I didn't know that. Julias swap is 128MB, maybe I've to extend this a bit?!? > > - julia is configured as preferred master, local master and domain > > master. > > In that case, why don't you run smbd and nmbd standalone, instead of > from inetd? That way, the inetd bug can't bite you at least. > > Running it from inetd is useful if you only serve any smb-related services > once in a while, and if the daemons would be a waste of valuable memory > that is primarily intended to be used for other tasks. Yes. It seems so and I'll change it to run as daemon. I guess I've initially started from inetd, because it first looks like julia won't do that job. It just changed over time... > > What is going wrong here. What do I have to change to get it work > > properly. Can anyone advise me somehow? > > (btw: in man nmbd under -D stands: running from inetd is possible but not > > recommended! Why is it started from inetd in debian? Or am I wrong here?) > > It is started from inetd because your were asked at installation time > if that is what you wanted. Apparently you did. :-) It's just running longer now. I did not remember that there was this question during install. But as I said, the service got more important over time and I've configured it to be preferred master later, not on first install.. Thanks a lot for your help Andre
