Dave Morgan's report on the mystery crash

2017-09-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Dave Morgan sent me a report on two instances of the mystery crash tghat hapened to him last week (he also said the installation had been stable since). Alas, I somehow fat-fingered my copy of that mail. Dave, please repost to the list so we can all stare at your logs and config. --

All hands alert - crash of unknown origin

2017-09-05 Thread Eric S. Raymond via devel
Everyone should read this thread: https://gitlab.com/NTPsec/ntpsec/issues/375 The only empirical clue we have is that it only seems to manifest under the kind of high load characterestic of pool service. I have a suspicion that somrthing is causing memory usage to spike and the OOM killer is rea