From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 7 22:26:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1AD71065690 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:26:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.16]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6495A8FC16 for ; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 22:26:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.43]) by QMTA01.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id PvaR1a00M0vyq2s51ySurK; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:26:54 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA05.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id PySt1a0052P6wsM3RyStP6; Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:26:54 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=opnXmuXciBkA:10 a=akTt9Pi7W0MA:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=puLNHll5obypqUP-DWcA:9 a=uda9RlehZKDLZo18st7P_LFV1XQA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id F0009C9419; Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:26:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 15:26:52 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Martin McCormick Message-ID: <20081007222652.GB60058@icarus.home.lan> References: <200810072115.m97LFOpA087733@dc.cis.okstate.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200810072115.m97LFOpA087733@dc.cis.okstate.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange Core Dump Error Message on a FreeBSD6.3 System X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:26:55 -0000 On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 04:15:24PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > I am running some C code I wrote on a couple of > FreeBSD6.3 systems, one of which has never exhibited this > message and the other has now done it twice in about 6 months. > The error is as follows: > > mem.c:877: INSIST(ctx->stats[i].gets == 0U) failed. > Abort trap (core dumped) > > Something obviously is wrong regarding memory allocation > but why this one system? > > Is there anything I can look for in netstat -m that > might help me solve the puzzle? > > Thanks. Try freebsd-hackers for this sort of question. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |