From owner-freebsd-bugs Fri Jun 5 00:43:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id AAA28606 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 00:43:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [195.8.129.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id AAA28575; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 00:43:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA02489; Fri, 5 Jun 1998 09:42:18 +0200 (CEST) To: Garrett Wollman cc: jher , FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/6858: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 04 Jun 1998 23:41:35 EDT." <199806050341.XAA06128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> Date: Fri, 05 Jun 1998 09:42:17 +0200 Message-ID: <2487.897032537@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org In message <199806050341.XAA06128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes: >< said: > >> What I have found out is this. When expire runs it grows to around >> 230M in size. Testing with ssh and telnet, both begin to fail when 62M of >> Swap is allocated in top. ssh reports the following debug message: > >You're probably suffering from the same cause as the ``daemons dying'' >bug which causes cron on my news server to wet itself after a >particularly heavy news burst has caused the machine to run out of >memory. This bug was definitely present as early as April 1st and as >late as June 1st (the last two dates I've tried to run). Have you guys tried: ln -s h /etc/malloc.conf -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message