From owner-freebsd-current Wed Sep 3 16:38:19 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id QAA15452 for current-outgoing; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:38:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nico.telstra.net (nico.telstra.net [139.130.204.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id QAA15447 for ; Wed, 3 Sep 1997 16:38:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by nico.telstra.net (8.6.10/8.6.10) with ESMTP id JAA05084 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 09:37:43 +1000 Received: (grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id IAA10986; Thu, 4 Sep 1997 08:50:06 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19970904085006.01044@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 1997 08:50:06 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: FreeBSD current users Subject: Sporadic memory allocation problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.81e Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Has anybody else seen this? I got a message from Wolfram Schneider yesterday: > $ telnet freebie.lemis.com > Trying 192.109.197.137... > Connected to freebie.lemis.com. > Escape character is '^]'. > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. > > FreeBSD (freebie.lemis.com) (ttypd) > > login: It was repeatable, but it didn't stop login, so I didn't pay much attention. Then my daily backup stopped with the same message, though all I saw in the log file was: select: protocol failure in circuit setup This was repeatable, but it was late in the evening, so I rebooted the machine, and the problem went away. I know it's not enough to go on, but it's worth a "heads up". Has anybody else seen this? Greg