From owner-freebsd-questions Sat May 2 08:53:40 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA11208 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sat, 2 May 1998 08:53:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from localhost.zilker.net (jump-k56flex-0058.jumpnet.com [207.8.6.58]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA11176 for ; Sat, 2 May 1998 08:53:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from marquard@zilker.net) Received: (from marquard@localhost) by localhost.zilker.net (8.8.8/8.8.3) id KAA08318; Sat, 2 May 1998 10:21:52 -0500 (CDT) To: Sue Blake Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: junk pointer, too low to make sense References: <19980502212231.18540@welearn.com.au> From: Dave Marquardt Date: 02 May 1998 10:20:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: Sue Blake's message of "Sat, 2 May 1998 21:22:31 +1000" Message-ID: <85d8dw4s3l.fsf@localhost.zilker.net> Lines: 19 X-Mailer: Quassia Gnus v0.22/XEmacs 19.16 - "Lille" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Sue Blake writes: > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. > > That's what is currently preventing FTP to this machine, and it also > says that if someone tries to telnet in, but not for ssh so I haven't > noticed it before, dunno how long it's been happening. > > >From the mail archives it looks like nobody's sure what's going on with > this one but it's fairly common. I'm too green to help but I'll try anyway. > > Doug White once suggested netstat -m I don't think the malloc/realloc being used by inetd has anything to do with mbufs. I'm pretty sure this has been discussed often in the mailing lists. You might search the archives. -Dave To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message