[IRCServices Coding] Services 5 having problems to shut down

Andrew Church achurch at achurch.org
Mon Dec 17 18:28:16 PST 2001


     The endless loop is fixed, thanks.  I'll look into the seg-fault later
(I suspect it's the same problem as was reported earlier).

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org
    http://achurch.org/

>Hi,
>
>when I started services with a little error in my config file this happened:
>
>[Dec 16 22:38:27 2001] Read error from server: Success
>[Dec 16 22:38:27 2001] Services terminating: Segmentation fault
>[Dec 16 22:38:27 2001] Services terminating: Segmentation fault
>[Dec 16 22:38:27 2001] Services terminating: Segmentation fault
>
>First, I didn't see that something was wrong, but suddenly many other
>processes on the server crashed due to 'Out of memory'. That's what services
>said 10 minutes later in the .log file as well. (At this point the .log file
>had 290MB)
>
>[Dec 16 22:48:15 2001] Out of memory!
>[Dec 16 22:48:15 2001] Out of memory!
>[Dec 16 22:48:15 2001] Out of memory!
>[Dec 16 22:48:15 2001] Out of memory!
>
>Seems like the get into an endless malloc-loop somewhere. Unfortunately
>there is no core dump, because they were still alive after 10 minutes, and I
>had to kill them through the console.
>
>Georges
>
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