Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ATMOS.UMD.EDU!austin From: austin@ATMOS.UMD.EDU (Austin L. Conaty) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo Subject: /etc/init problem on sr10.2 YIKES!! Message-ID: <9105130048.AA08728@atmos.UMD.EDU> Date: 13 May 91 00:48:18 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 I have recently noticed a problem on our server node, a dn3500 with 2 760mb drives and 8mb memory. The disk seems to fill up continuously until it approaches 99%. (at which point I reset it) Upon reset, the disk space drops by 4-5%. Which is a pretty big chunk of the disk as far as I'm concerned. I noticed that when the node starts up, /etc/init has PID 1, and a few minutes later it starts up /etc/init again. It keeps starting init and then it dies, but each time it restarts, it uses more memory than the time before. For example, It is Sun. evening and less than 24 hours ago I shut and restarted the server. At that time the 'secondary /etc/init' had a size of ~1240KB. Now the size is over 21,000KB and the PID of the 'sec. init' is 4754. The next closest PID is 130. It keeps dying and restarting and growing I don't have a patch, but obviously I need one right???? PLEASE HELP!!!! Austin Conaty austin@meto.umd.edu