Re: snap_sds on media0

[Erik Machnicki <machnick@bmrc.berkeley.edu>]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Peter Pletcher wrote:

> Well, Matt and I tried to set up the snap_sds service on media0 under
> the management of init, to ensure it is always running.
> 
> We ended in failure: the smash process would just segfault when started
> this way.  I ran it manually and we should check on it tomorrow.
> 
> Two drawbacks to this approach (using init) seem apparent:
>   1) init runs the smash process as root, which makes me uncomfortable.
>   2) sometimes, when the leaking smash consumes all virtual memory the
> system kills some other process first.  Last time on media0 it was the
> syslogd.
> It shouldn't be difficult to solve #1, but I think the answer to #2 is
> to fix the smash memory leak.
 
I think if you fix #2, you shouldn't bother with trying to fix #1.

ERik