Time for a question dealing with my main port for once, and not the new one. And this one is totally frying me.
Rom2.4b4 with b6 patches, 5+ years worth of changes and rewrites.. recently installed a sighandler.. can't think of who wrote it offhand, but it's the one that checks to see if the mud has frozen and does the full copyover thing and all that. The mud was running fine for 4.5 days straight, then crashed when is_granted_name tried checking an invalid character. The sighandler went into copyover.. and then totally crashed. Now, here's the big problem. After the mud was restarted again, I was watching the process in 'top'.. the cpu % would drop to 0.00% and the mud would just freeze up there. Usually whenever it would get stuck in a loop, the process cpu would skyrocket, but here it is down at nothing, and the mud is totally frozen. And it does this for at least 2-3 hours straight.. every couple minutes. Finally, it had another crash, the sighandler caught it, copyovered, and now it seems to be running stable again. Unfortunatly, I have nothing in the logs saying why it froze, and of course, no core files either.. so I don't know where to start looking. I also have 2 zombied rom processes. Please, someone tell me you have some suggestions or ideas!! --- RogueDragon @ A Merging of Fates MUD telnet://mud.merging.org:5454 icq: 2072355 (inactive atm), yim: roguedragon, aim: roguedragon69 --- Windows - Where do you want to go today? Linux - Where do you want to go tomorrow? FreeBSD - When are they going to catch up?
