From owner-freebsd-current Mon Nov 9 09:15:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA25482 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:15:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id JAA25477 for ; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 09:15:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id SAA05657; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:15:02 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id SAA15216; Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:15:02 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19981109181501.17552@follo.net> Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1998 18:15:01 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: Archie Cobbs , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: The infamous dying daemons bug References: <199811091626.IAA21393@hub.freebsd.org> <199811091710.JAA01978@bubba.whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: <199811091710.JAA01978@bubba.whistle.com>; from Archie Cobbs on Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 09:10:09AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Nov 09, 1998 at 09:10:09AM -0800, Archie Cobbs wrote: > Could someone who is seeing this happen often recompile their > kernel with memory mapping disabled, and see if that changes > anything (other than making programs that use mmap() stop working)? > Ie, comment out > > options SYSVSHM > options SYSVSEM > options SYSVMSG > > (this *does* disable mmap(), right? If not, instead patch the > mmap() syscall to always return an error) This does NOT remove mmap() support. If you remove mmap() support, not dynamically linked executables will work. You'll have to recompile everything static before trying this trick. Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message