Re: webmin-0.990-1 spawns several processes and locks server

[Andrew K. <ak...@ra...>]

I just tried it with netscape 7.0 and the same thing happened.
Server almost died before I killed the browser and stopped webmin.

-Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jamie Cameron" <jca...@we...>
To: <web...@li...>
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 8:33 PM
Subject: Re: webmin-0.990-1 spawns several processes and locks server


> You aren't the first person to report this, but I have been unable to
> re-produce it on my own systems in order to solve it. I suspect it may
> be triggered by certain browsers .. which browser are you using, and does
> it still happen if you try a different one?
>
>   - Jamie
>
> Andrew Kornak wrote:
>
> > I recently installed webmin on a server and when I attempt to access
> > the server it quickly spawns several processes which eat up all the
> > memory until the server locks up. I can sometimes kill the webmin
> > process before the server locks up. This seems pretty serious.
> > Clearly webmin is in some kind of infinite loop. Any help would
> > be greatly appreciated.
> >
> > Some background on this machine:
> >
> > Redhat 7.0
> >
> > webmin-0.990-1
> > openssl-0.9.6-9
> > apache-1.3.22-1.7.1
> > sendmail-8.11.6-2.7.0
> >
> > Linux 2.2.16-22 #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06 EDT 2000 i686 unknown
> >
> >                       total       used       free     shared    buffers
> > cached
> > Mem:        192648      61628     131020      29160       4484
33864
> > -/+ buffers/cache:      23280     169368
> > Swap:       273064      18624     254440
> >
> >
> > Linux version 2.2.16-22 (ro...@po...) (gcc version
> > egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 Tue Aug 22 16:49:06
EDT
> > 2000
> > Detected 598629 kHz processor.
> > Console: colour VGA+ 80x25
> > Calibrating delay loop... 1196.03 BogoMIPS
> > Memory: 192648k/196544k available (1048k kernel code, 412k reserved,
2372k
> > data, 64k init, 0k bigmem)
> > Dentry hash table entries: 262144 (order 9, 2048k)
> > Buffer cache hash table entries: 262144 (order 8, 1024k)
> > Page cache hash table entries: 65536 (order 6, 256k)
> > VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
> > CPU: Intel Pentium III (Coppermine) stepping 03
> > Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
> > Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
> > POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
> > mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch (rg...@at...)
> > PCI: PCI BIOS revision 2.10 entry at 0xfd993
> > PCI: Using configuration type 1
> > PCI: Probing PCI hardware
> > Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
> > Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
> > NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
> > NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
> > IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP, IGMP
> > TCP: Hash tables configured (ehash 262144 bhash 65536)
> > Linux IP multicast router 0.06 plus PIM-SM
> > Initializing RT netlink socket
> > Starting kswapd v 1.5
> > Detected PS/2 Mouse Port.
> > Serial driver version 4.27 with MANY_PORTS MULTIPORT SHARE_IRQ enabled
> > ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> > pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
> > apm: BIOS version 1.2 Flags 0x03 (Driver version 1.13)
> > Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
> > RAM disk driver initialized:  16 RAM disks of 4096K size
> > PIIX4: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 39
> > PIIX4: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> >     ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1820-0x1827, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:pio
> >     ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1828-0x182f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:pio
> > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30.0, ATA DISK drive
> > hdc: CRD-8480C, ATAPI CDROM drive
> > ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
> > ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> > hda: QUANTUM FIREBALLP LM30.0, 28629MB w/1900kB Cache, CHS=3649/255/63
> > Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> > FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> > md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MAX_REAL=12
> > raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> > raid5: MMX detected, trying high-speed MMX checksum routines
> >    pII_mmx   :  1331.976 MB/sec
> >    p5_mmx    :  1399.032 MB/sec
> >    8regs     :  1028.319 MB/sec
> >    32regs    :   576.453 MB/sec
> > using fastest function: p5_mmx (1399.032 MB/sec)
> > scsi : 0 hosts.
> > scsi : detected total.
> > md.c: sizeof(mdp_super_t) = 4096
> > Partition check:
> >  hda: hda1 hda2 < hda5 hda6 hda7 hda8 >
> > autodetecting RAID arrays
> > autorun ...
> > ... autorun DONE.
> > VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
> > Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
> > Adding Swap: 273064k swap-space (priority -1)
> > Linux agpgart interface v0.99 (c) Jeff Hartmann
> > agpgart: Maximum main memory to use for agp memory: 149M
> > agpgart: Detected Intel 440BX chipset
> > agpgart: AGP aperture is 64M @ 0xf8000000
> > rtl8139.c:v1.07 5/6/99 Donald Becker
> > http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html
> > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x1000, IRQ 10,
00:50:bf:e4:8f:34.
> > eth1: RealTek RTL8139 Fast Ethernet at 0x1400, IRQ 10,
00:50:bf:e4:8f:49.
> > eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > device eth0 entered promiscuous mode
> > eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > eth0: Promiscuous mode enabled.
> > hdc: ATAPI 48X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache
> > Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.10
>
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