From owner-freebsd-current Fri Jan 8 05:37:05 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA24243 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:37:05 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA24235 for ; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 05:37:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@flood.ping.uio.no) Received: (from des@localhost) by flood.ping.uio.no (8.9.1/8.9.1) id OAA97196; Fri, 8 Jan 1999 14:36:17 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from des) To: N Cc: "T.D. Brace" , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd problem References: <990108004112.23760A-100000@liquid.tpb.net> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 08 Jan 1999 14:36:16 +0100 In-Reply-To: N's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:42:58 +0100 (CET)" Message-ID: Lines: 24 X-Mailer: Gnus v5.5/Emacs 19.34 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG N writes: > > Can anyone tell me if the inetd realloc (and other) problems have been > > fixed yet? Searching Deja News shows conflicting reports. I checked > > the current diffs, and built version 1.46 - is this a safe version to > > use? It's been running on my local workstation for a few days now, but > > it really doesn't have any load on it. I'd like to copy it up to our > > webservers, but thought I would ask first. > > If you mean the "dying daemons" problem, it has probably been fixed in > version 1.105 of src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c. No. People are constantly confused over this issue. There is (was) a bug in inetd related to the way it handles signals, which caused it to output "junk pointer: too low to make sense" (or sometimes "too high to make sense") when under heavy load. It is not the same bug as the dying daemons bug. There have been two attemps to fix the inetd bug: one by Matt Dillon in rev. 1.42 and 1.43, and one by me (based on patches submitted by Graham Wheeler) in rev. 1.44 and 1.45. I haven't heard any complaints about the inetd bug lately, so I'll tentatively postulate that I succeeded. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message