Re: misc/57291

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/57291; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/57291
Date: Sat, 1 Apr 2023 20:13:08 +0000

 On Sun, Mar 26, 2023 at 01:10:01PM +0000, Jim Spath wrote:
  >  When I found signal 9 errors on NetBSD 10.0 BETA with an evbarm
  >  installation, I had not noticed console messages (they were not shown
  >  in /var/log/messages) about swap. I transcribe them here:
  >  
  >  [ 22555.40164641 UVM: pid 19688 (t_exhaust), uid 0 killed: out of suap
  >  [ 53830.57815951 UVM: pid 17972 (t_exhaust), uid 1000 killed: out of swap
  >  [ x656x.93092051 UVM: pid 24498 (t_exhaust), uid 1000 killed: out of suap
  >  [ 85716.67184551 UVM: pid 28714 (t_exhaust), uid 1000 killed: out of swap
 
 It seems like a bug that these don't make it to /var/log/messages
 under the default syslog config. (Assuming that's what happened. One
 of the things that I've frequently seen in the past when OOMing is
 that syslog goes to log the message, trips on the OOM condition while
 doing so, and also gets killed. But if that had happened you'd also
 see it on the console.)
 
 also it's not clear that we should have tests that are so large they
 won't run on platforms we might reasonably want to test on.
 
 -- 
 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost