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From: krowitz%richter@UMIX.CC.UMICH.EDU (David Krowitz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re:  memory hungry init?
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Date: 8 Jan 90 14:19:06 GMT
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The problem you described with "init" under Sr10 is very similar
to what we have encountered here at MIT with several systems.
The problem in each case was with the /etc/ttys file (which is
read by "init" at boot time or whenever it receives a "hangup"
signal from /bin/kill). In our particular cases, the /etc/ttys
file enabled a tty line that did not have a device attached to
it, or that had an incorrectly configured /etc/getty option.
In either case it seems that random noise on the tty line 
would cause "init" to start growing in size without bound.


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