[IRCServices] Problems with services and ircd

[Tim Jung]

No one is allowed to telnet into that server but me. So all IRC clients are
remote clients none are done via the local loopback or from the machine
itself.

Your comment that no program should be able to crash an OS is true if this
were a perfect world. This isn't a perfect world and software is updated all
the time to fix bugs etc, and this could possibly be a bug that needs to be
fixed. I don't know for sure. But I don't understand how my game servers can
chew up all the ram and put huge loads on the processor (1.xx and higher)
and they don't crash the server.

Yet I can run just IRCD and SERVICES and like clockwork the server will
crash after a day or so. It points to a problem in IRC and SERVICES and
their interaction with the operating system. Since they are the only
applications that crash the server.

Tim Jung
System Admin
Internet Gateway Inc.
tjung at igateway.net


----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin" <lebleu at prefer.net>
To: <ircservices at ender.shadowfire.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 12:18 PM
Subject: Re: [IRCServices] Problems with services and ircd


> On Tue, 18 Jan 2000, Tim Jung wrote:
>
> > Yet if I run nothing but IRC/Services the machine crashes in 1-3 days.
It
> > doesn't make any sense other than there is no hardware problem or Linux
> > problem.
> >
> > It would seem there is a problem with either the IRC server or Services
or
> > both of them running together. Until I can figure out which one is
causing
> > the problem or both, I can't run that copy of IRC or that copy of IRC
> > Services. There is a definite problem with IRC and/or services.
>
> If any program can crash the system, there is a problem with your OS or
> hardware.  No matter how buggy the program is, a decent OS shouldn't let
> it crash the system.  Are you connecting IRC and services via the
> localhost interface?  What if you run irc and services on your machine,
> but connect the ircd to services running on a remote machine, and the
> services to ircd running on a remote machine?  Perhaps it is an oddball
> bug in the local loopback interface?
>
> There must be some part of your hardware or kernel that irc + services
> accesses that other programs don't.  Given the intensity of quake servers
> on the network, I doubt it's a hardware problem though, because I
> can't think of any piece of hardware services would use more... disk
> access I suppose, but compiling services would be harder on disk than
> running it... hmm... I haven't had any troubles with services on my P100
> w/ 40 meg ram and 128 meg swap and kernel 2.0.36...
>
> --Kevin
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