From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Nov 18 16:20:38 1996 Return-Path: owner-bugs Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id QAA26306 for bugs-outgoing; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:20:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from eac.iafrica.com (196-7-192-99.iafrica.com [196.7.192.99]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA26289 for ; Mon, 18 Nov 1996 16:20:33 -0800 (PST) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by eac.iafrica.com (8.8.2/8.6.12) id CAA10920; Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:18:21 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199611190018.CAA10920@eac.iafrica.com> Subject: Re: kern/2043: 2.2-ALPHA stdio problems? (Bad Address errors) In-Reply-To: <19961117092532.13851.qmail@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu> from "tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu" at "Nov 17, 96 09:25:32 am" To: tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu Date: Tue, 19 Nov 1996 02:18:20 +0200 (SAT) Cc: bugs@freebsd.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL28 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-bugs@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk tenser@spitfire.ecsel.psu.edu wrote: [ ... ] > >Release: FreeBSD 2.2-CURRENT i386 > >Environment: > i386dx40, 8MB RAM, 1.2GB IDE disk, 64Kb cache [ ... ] > > >Description: > > Programs which read from stdin will, if given a period > of inactivity (say, 30 seconds) return ``Bad Address'' > errors from read calls. This will cause vi to exit or > dump core, sendmail to ignore whoever it's talking to, > telnet to stop talking to a remote host, etc. I also have 2.2-ALPHA installed on an old test system with virtually identical hardware. EFAULTs are being reported regularly (though not quite consistently) by vi; by ftp; and (most reproducibly: about 4 times out of 5) by sendmail when invoked by procmail: sendmail[999]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root): getrequests: accept: Bad address The problem appears worse when the system is under load (eg. vi suddenly crashed just now when the `daily' script started). Prior to installing 2.2-ALPHA, the system has run 2.0-RELEASE through 2.1.5-RELEASE flawlessly. -- Robert Nordier