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Re: trace of scheduler core dumps



> The scheduler core dumping problem I reported earlier might have
> something to do with how the scheduler handles a high number of
> mail/threads/child processes (?) (sorry, I haven't caught up with how
> the scheduler works now).  I cut down the number of messages from 179
> to about 19 and the scheduler has not died on me yet.
> 
> I'm including a trace of the scheduler process.  Can someone provide me
> with some insight as to what might be happening?  I'm running 2.99.38
> on a Sun Ultra under Solaris 2.5.1.  There are 179 messages in the
> transport directory, all of them are supposed to smtp to
> mac.its.hawaii.edu which should be down so I can watch the scheduler
> do its work.    I am using the default scheduler.conf file.

	A bus-error ?   That means access of unaligned data, which likely
	means access of invalid data.
	What compiler did you use ?

> If someone can confirm it's a bug and not something of my doing, then
> I can stop worrying about it.  Please reply to julio@hawaii.edu as I'm
> not in this mailing list.  Thanks.

	Could you run this same with the scheduler on some debugger ?
	(So that we could get a backtrace to see where it crashes.)

> -Julio Polo, University of Hawaii

	/Matti Aarnio <mea@nic.funet.fi> <matti.aarnio@tele.fi>