Re: some problems with chpst again

On Tue, 11 May 2004, Payal Rathod wrote:

> With softlimit, it runs fine. My run file was,
> #!/bin/sh
> exec 2>&1
> exec  softlimit -a 40000000 \
>     /usr/local/sbin/clamd
> 
> But with chpst it has problems,
> #!/bin/sh
> exec 2>&1
> exec /usr/local/bin/chpst -m 40000000 /usr/local/sbin/clamd
> 
> I get error in /tmp/clamd.log as,
> Tue May 11 08:55:43 2004 -> ERROR: pthread_create failed
> 
> What must be wrong? Once I comment the chpst line and put softlimit
> line, it works again.

I'd suggest that you capture strace output from each instance, and see 
what difference there is in the system calls. Instead of "exec ...", use 
"exec strace -o/tmp/strace.$$ ..."

Regards

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Charlie