Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-10 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 05 13:51:06, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:00:27PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > On Jul 04 10:57:45, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:06:37PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > > > > > > this is another problem. configure > > > > > swap to be double the

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-05 Thread Philip Guenther
On Tue, Jul 3, 2012 at 8:16 AM, Jan Stary wrote: > This is 5.1-beta/i386 on an ALIX about five years old, > running as my home server. > > Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in > > pid 20260 (postgres): user write of 118784@0x28052000 at 159088 failed: 14 > pid 1872 (cron):

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-05 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 09:00:27PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > On Jul 04 10:57:45, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:06:37PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > > > > this is another problem. configure > > > > swap to be double the RAM size, or if you insist on loading the > > > > machi

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-04 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 04 10:57:45, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:06:37PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > > > this is another problem. configure > > > swap to be double the RAM size, or if you insist on loading the > > > machine about 4 times the RAM size. you obviously forgot to or didn't > > > w

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Tue, Jul 03, 2012 at 07:06:37PM +0200, Jan Stary wrote: > > this is another problem. configure > > swap to be double the RAM size, or if you insist on loading the > > machine about 4 times the RAM size. you obviously forgot to or didn't > > want to configure swap. > > is the "twice the RAM" ma

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-04 Thread Otto Moerbeek
On Wed, Jul 04, 2012 at 12:00:22AM +, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2012-07-03, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > Op 3 jul. 2012 om 17:54 heeft Jan Stary het volgende > > geschreven: > > > >> On Jul 03 10:32:29, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > This is 5.1-beta/i386 on an ALIX about five years old, >

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2012-07-03, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > Op 3 jul. 2012 om 17:54 heeft Jan Stary het volgende > geschreven: > >> On Jul 03 10:32:29, Amit Kulkarni wrote: This is 5.1-beta/i386 on an ALIX about five years old, running as my home server. Recently, processes started to die for reaso

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> this is another problem. configure >> swap to be double the RAM size, or if you insist on loading the >> machine about 4 times the RAM size. you obviously forgot to or didn't >> want to configure swap. > > is the "twice the RAM" mantra still valid today? i have seen openbsd swap just once on 8

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 03 11:26:44, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > >> > Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in > >> > > >> > pid 20260 (postgres): user write of 118784@0x28052000 at 159088 failed: > >> > 14 > >> > pid 1872 (cron): user write of 118784@0x2b1e3000 at 30224 failed: 14 > >> > > >> > 14

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Amit Kulkarni
>> > Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in >> > >> > pid 20260 (postgres): user write of 118784@0x28052000 at 159088 failed: 14 >> > pid 1872 (cron): user write of 118784@0x2b1e3000 at 30224 failed: 14 >> > >> > 14 is EFAULT as per sys/errno,h >> > - what can be causing it?

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Otto Moerbeek
Op 3 jul. 2012 om 17:54 heeft Jan Stary het volgende geschreven: > On Jul 03 10:32:29, Amit Kulkarni wrote: >>> This is 5.1-beta/i386 on an ALIX about five years old, >>> running as my home server. >>> >>> Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in >>> >>> pid 20260 (postgres):

Re: processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Jan Stary
On Jul 03 10:32:29, Amit Kulkarni wrote: > > This is 5.1-beta/i386 on an ALIX about five years old, > > running as my home server. > > > > Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in > > > > pid 20260 (postgres): user write of 118784@0x28052000 at 159088 failed: 14 > > pid 1872 (c

processes dying on an old ALIX

2012-07-03 Thread Jan Stary
This is 5.1-beta/i386 on an ALIX about five years old, running as my home server. Recently, processes started to die for reasons unknown, as in pid 20260 (postgres): user write of 118784@0x28052000 at 159088 failed: 14 pid 1872 (cron): user write of 118784@0x2b1e3000 at 30224 failed: 14 14 is EF