Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 01:57:05 +1300 From: Craig Harding <crh@outpost.co.nz> To: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Status of Linux upgrade Message-ID: <3A868C21.BAF18F98@outpost.co.nz>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
[I've only just joined this list, forgive me if this is current or recent discussion, I have checked the mail archives for background and didn't see anything directly relevant] I was wondering if any work was being done on upgrading the Linux emulation from its current RedHat 6.1 base to something more recent? Alternatively, could anyone give me some pointers on what would be involved in upgrading some of the libraries in an existing 6.1 installation to current versions? Specifically, (/compat/linux)/lib/libpthread-0.8.so? The reason I ask is that I admin (among other things) a FreeBSD 4.2S machine running a Counter-Strike game server. For those unfamiliar, this uses the linux Halflife dedicated server, which runs quite nicely under linux emulation on FreeBSD. Unfortunately, the Counter-Strike community is rife with cheating, which Valve (HL Authors) and the Counter-Strike developers have only been marginally effective in combatting. An independent team have developed a simple Client/Server system called PunkBuster (http://www.punkbuster.com) which, rather than preventing cheats directly, merely looks for their signature on client machines (ala virus scanners) and automatically kicks players who are found to be using cheats. The system is still in beta, and the PB developers originally only released a Windows server, which caused great concern to those of us running HL on unix servers who didn't find the thought of setting up a separate Win XX machine just for PB particularly attractive. In January they released a linux port which has been in a fairly dynamic state as the developers come to grips with unix programming. The problem is one particularly constant bug in the PB server - on FreeBSD systems (and I have now discovered apparently on Redhat 6.1 & 6.2) the server generates 4 zombie processes for every HL player not running the PB client, per 30min map cycle. Eventually (within 24hrs usually) the machine will run out of process table space and fail in various exciting ways. The PB server is implemented using pthreads and my very strong suspicion is that some flaw in the libpthread-0.8.so library in RH6.[12] (and therefore FBSD) is at fault. The server does run successfully without zombification problems on RH7. I would like to try using a newer libpthread to see if this fixes the problem, I know RH7 appears to use 0.9 but my various naive attempts at upgrading the Linuxilator libraries have been spectacularly unsuccessful. Are there any documents/guides anyone can point me to that demonstrates/explains/suggests how to do this in a way that still leaves a working Linux emulation? Guru assistance would be muchly appreciated. -- C. PS why is RPM such an irritating system for extracting individual files?! Am I doing something completely wrong? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?3A868C21.BAF18F98>