Otto Moerbeek <otto <at> drijf.net> writes: > According to you previous message, you are getting a different > behaviour on the 5.1 box. A segfault is not the same as running out of mem.
I agree. It seems strangely co-incidental though that bgpd on both version of OpenBSD died within minutes of each other. > As for the quitting problem: if a fatal error occurs, you don't have > any other choice than to quit. A fatal error means the process cannnot > be trusted any more. This is unsatisfactory, but the only way. true. > > to believe that this behaviour would have been tolerated by people > > running bgpd in production all the way from the time of 4.3 to now. > > Which leads to the only conclusion... I'm doing something stupid. > > The question is what. I have ospfd and bgpd running. On the 5.1 box > > there is also a CARP interface too (not an interface we are using ospfd on). > > > > -Matt > > There have been earlier reports of bgpd running out of mem or getting > segfaults. In some cases that lead to fixing bugs. There might remain > unsolved cases. > > Working with the developers is one way of getting problems resolved. > Ranting about "I cannot believe this is happening" is not a > constructive way to get closer to the solution. Sorry if you mis-understood what I wrote. I was not ranting, I was pointing out that as I can't believe it would be tolerated then it means I must be doing something stupid, or different, or wrong. -Matt
