On 09/13/2016 04:06 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Rick Stevens writes:
> 
>> On 09/10/2016 08:09 AM, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> > Sam Varshavchik writes:
>> >
>> >> Tom Horsley writes:
>> >>
>> >>> On Sat, 10 Sep 2016 10:20:57 -0400
>> >>> Sam Varshavchik wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> > All-righty, this must be something about this particular
>> named-chroot
>> >>> > configuration…
>> >>>
>> >>> In the "check the dumb stuff first" category, might want to
>> >>> run memtest and check the SMART info on the disk. Always a
>> >>> chance the code got corrupted somehow and isn't running the
>> >>> instructions intended to run :-).
>> >>
>> >> I copied the chroot to another server that I can play with. On that
>> >> one, named-chroot also segfaults at startup in the same way, so it
>> >> looks like I have a weekend project…
>> >
>> > I have this "options" directive in place for decades:
>> >
>> > datasize 20M;
>> >
>> > Commenting it out allows named to start up. I'll try it on my main
>> > server, the next time I reboot it. Something about 4.7.2 that makes
>> > named blow up, with this directive in place.
>>
>> Uhm, since that limits the size of memory that named can use, have you
>> tried increasing it? I agree that a new kernel shouldn't cause it to
>> puke unless there's something wrong with the way RAM is being allocated
>> in the kernel (or the limit is actually being enforced in the new kernel
>> and it wasn't in the older ones).
>>
>> It'd be interesting if you had a top report of the memory usage of
>> named under the old kernel and the new kernel (with the directive
>> disabled), just to see what the memory footprint differences are. Might
>> point toward something interesting.
> 
> Yeah, something's definitely going on.
> 
> Freshly restarted named:
> 
> 4.7.2:
> 
>  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
> 29156 named     20   0  702528  83324   6360 S  12.5  2.1   0:00.23 named
> 
> 4.6.7:
> 
>  PID USER      PR  NI    VIRT    RES    SHR S  %CPU %MEM     TIME+ COMMAND
> 10208 named     20   0  407084  81908   6828 S  12.5  1.0   0:00.13 named
> 
> With 4.7.2, it's virtual space is nearly twice as much, also RES is just
> slightly bigger.

Yeah, the virtual usage is significantly bigger, the resident part
slightly bigger and the shared segment is actually smaller. Weird.

I wonder if it has something to do with the way chroots work in 4.7.x?
Is it possible for you to launch it again in both kernels but NOT in a
chroot? That might allow you to bugzilla something a bit more focused,
but there's SOMETHING weird there.
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