Re: [hylafax-users] HylaFAX failing my abuse test

[Robert Colquhoun <rjc@trump.net.au>]

At 12:10 23/10/00 -0600, HALLOWELL,KARL (HP-Cupertino,ex1) wrote:
>First, I disabled the fax/modem by disconnected the attached phone line
>(turning the modem off is possible too, but I didn't do that). Then I start
>a Java program that creates ten threads which hammer at my code (and at
>HylaFAX) by alternately sending a fax and removing that same fax as fast as
>possible. Everything is running on the same machine. All goes well until
>hfaxd dies on me. That generates some SocketExceptions (this happens when
>the socket connection goes down) and pages of secondary exceptions (Java is
>a wondrous thing :-). Unfortunately, no errors appear in any of my system
>logs. My hfaxd does log to /var/log/messages, but the messages aren't
>enlightening. Around the time that hfaxd dies, I see a number of "CAUGHT
>SIGNAL 11" messages from secondary hfaxd processes, but nothing from the
>main one. According to my man pages, signal number 11 is "invalid memory
>reference" or "SIGSEGV".

Do you get a core dump?

If so could you look at it with a debugger just to find the location.

If not perhaps switch server logging on to get a rough idea what is 
happening when the failure occurs.

- Robert




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