Re: posible bug in daemontools

On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:17:15AM +0100, Jan Moj?????? wrote:

> I found posible bug in daemontools supervise.
> 
> When is system out of memory, and some service (dnscache) is killed by OOM or die and
> supervise than fails to fork new process, supervise never start dnscache.
> 
> In readproctitle is only message:
> supervise: warning: unable to fork for dnscache, sleeping 60 seconds: out of memory
> 
> Did anyone see same problem or am I first?

I ran into this problem some years ago, and Paul Jarc suggested a fix:

http://marc.info/?l=log&m=113571910024742&w=2

Unfortunately (or perhaps, fortunately), I didn't run into the low memory
situation again so was not able to test his proposed fix.

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Jurjen Oskam

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