On 2007-07-20, Bill Moran <wmoran@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > It just occurred to me that there's another wildcard in this one. > The 8.1 system I tested was on FreeBSD 5.5, while both 8.2 systems > were running on FreeBSD 6.2. I wonder if FreeBSD has changed > which signal gets sent on memory exhaustion? Neither 5.x nor 6.x send any sort of signal simply because maxdsize was reached; the only effect of reaching maxdsize is that further memory allocations fail. I'd guess that the most likely cause for a sig11 under those circumstances is a stack overflow resulting from recursive errors... -- Andrew, Supernews http://www.supernews.com - individual and corporate NNTP services
