[H-GEN] PPP and low memory..

[Bradley Marshall]

> I was using chat to get a box to dial up last weekend, with no
> hassles, but it *was* a 16 meg box.  It barely ever hit the swapfile
> though (from the output of free) so I would hazard a guess that
> perhaps a broken copy of chat is to blame?  

Hmm.. possible - its a vanilla install of RedHat 4.2 - are there any known
bugs with chat?

And this machine did actually have ram free.. and wasn't swapping..

> Or maybe some other program is chewing up all that ram.  I couldn't
> say, cos I don't know what software you're running on it...  But then
> again, you do say that hardly anything else is running, so maybe it
> would not take long to eliminate possible suspects. 

Well, as I said, we weren't swapping.  There's gettys, a couple copies of
bash.. normal stuff.. the box usually runs about 12 processes - its been
stripped pretty darn hard.

> Also, if the box is locking up hard, then maybe it is pppd which is
> killing the box, cos, it's like, you know, setuid and everything.
> Last time I checked chat had no special priveleges.

True.. I'll have a look.

Thanks,
Brad

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