[rabbitmq-discuss] Persister crashes Rabbit

[Florian Weimer]

* Ben Hood:

> Florian,
>
> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Florian Weimer <fw at deneb.enyo.de> wrote:
>> Is this on GNU/Linux i386?  Could it be that the Erlang process
>> receives SIGXFSZ because the log file crossed the 2 GB boundary?
>
> I can't comment on this, I've really only load tested Rabbit/Penguin
> with a 64-bit kernel (don't know if that makes a difference). If you
> or anybody else who knows about this signal can enlighten me that
> would great.

Ilya mentioned something about 7 GB of memory, so we can scratch the
32 bit theory.

On i386, processes receive SIGXFSZ by default if writing to a file
would push it past the 2 GB barrier.  This used to happen with some
syslog implementations.  But it's probably unrelated given that Ilya
is not on a 32-bit system.