From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 17 18:02:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA19951 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:02:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA19941; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 18:02:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from toor@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA01899; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 21:02:22 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from toor) Message-Id: <199803180202.VAA01899@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Memory leak in inetd in last week's -current? In-Reply-To: <19980318120016.31155@freebie.lemis.com> from Greg Lehey at "Mar 18, 98 12:00:16 pm" To: grog@lemis.com (Greg Lehey) Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 21:02:22 -0500 (EST) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, FreeBSD-current@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL32 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Greg Lehey said: > On Tue, 17 March 1998 at 20:16:27 -0500, John S. Dyson wrote: > > Greg Lehey said: > >> I've just discovered that my inetd has been rejecting connections with > >> the following message: > >> > >> $ ftp ftp.lemis.com > >> Connected to freebie.lemis.com. > >> inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too high to make sense. > >> ftp> > >> > >> I took a ktrace of it happening, if that's of any use, and restarted > >> inetd, which made the problem go away. Any ideas? > >> > > If you are running a kernel after about Saturday, then it is a kernel > > problem, and immediately you should start running an earlier kernel. > > Yes, I saw the file system mass destruction problems, but that was > later. This kernel was built last Thursday (our time), or Wednesday > your time. Any danger there? > Some problems were known, but not the overt system destruction (so far) on code that old. BTW, I am working on the problem every waking hour (practically), and am getting support/help/ideas from Karl, who is prepared to help regression test the code. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message