[2603] in Athena Bugs
Re: crashing workstation rtpc 6.3a on 6.3b afs packs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John D. Kubiatowicz)
Thu Jul 20 13:02:02 1989
To: Ralph R. Swick <swick@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
Cc: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, geer@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, djf@ATHENA.MIT.EDU,
In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu, 20 Jul 89 09:44:59 -0400.
Date: Thu, 20 Jul 89 13:01:41 EDT
From: John D. Kubiatowicz <kubitron@ATHENA.MIT.EDU>
This message comes from within the "special" malloc of IBM's (i.e.
from ddx/ibm/common/ibmMalloc.). They use sbrk(0)+requestsize to
determine whether or not you will exceed the limits of the segment.
What we should do, is print the value of sbrk(0) at that point to see
if it has really grown beyond the 16 meg point in the data segment...
If sbrk(0) does not indicate such, then it is merely a problem of
misinterpretation--i.e. Dan has run out of swap space instead. If
it does indicate such, then we could be having a large number of
problems, only one of which is a 16 meg server...
Dan, would you be willing to run a debugging server (since you seem to
be successful at reproducing this problem). Also, have you checked
the size of you server lately? What is its typical size?
--KUBI--
