From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jul 23 13:10:53 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id NAA23716 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:10:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA23670 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:10:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id NAA15517; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 13:10:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199807232010.NAA15517@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Niall Smart Subject: Re: bin/7370: ftp client problem Reply-To: Niall Smart Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/7370; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Niall Smart To: grg@isabase.philol.msu.ru, FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: Subject: Re: bin/7370: ftp client problem Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 20:55:21 +0000 On Jul 22, 10:49pm, Grigoriy Strokin wrote: } Subject: bin/7370: ftp client problem > > ftp client fails to connect to some hosts giving the message > "inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense". > >How-To-Repeat: > (not always): > ftp ftp.radio-msu.net This is actually a problem with the remote host, inetd is sending that message when it can't fork off a ftpd server to handle your incoming request. Unfortunately, no-one knows why the above happens, see kern/6858, current theories include unchecked memory allocation in libc and kernel VM bugs. Does this problem manifest itself under any particular conditions that you can isolate? Niall -- Niall Smart. PGP: finger njs3@motmot.doc.ic.ac.uk FreeBSD: Turning PC's into Workstations: www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message