From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 16 13:18:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA08674 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:18:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts13-line2.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA08669 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA07496; Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:18:48 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 1997 13:18:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Jamie Lawrence cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bad Block - What To Do? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Jamie Lawrence wrote: > Hi all - > > True to form, I seem to be having problems just when my server > is going under a heavy load. > > abu: {68} ./test.pl > free(69408) bad block. (memtop = 7e800 membot = 527d0) > ./test.cgi: Bad file descriptor. This isn't a disk error, it's an error from the free() system call. Somehow the pointer to the memory block is being corrupted. A reboot might be in order. > I'm not entirely sure what this is telling me - more accesses > the file just fine: > > abu: {69} more test.pm > #!usr/bin/perl > First, if this is test.pm, what is test.pl? And you need an absolute path on that first line: #!/usr/bin/perl > I'm running FreeBSD 2.1.7. > > I guess I'm asking what to do about this - I'm assuming I need > to reformat the drive, but praying I don't. Any hints? It's not a disk problem. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo