From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 21 13:53:27 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from granite.sentex.net (granite.sentex.ca [199.212.134.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD7C715907 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 13:53:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@sentex.net) Received: from simoeon (simeon.sentex.ca [209.112.4.47]) by granite.sentex.net (8.8.8/8.6.9) with SMTP id QAA05130; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:50:42 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990421164957.00fab1f0@staff.sentex.ca> X-Sender: mdtpop@staff.sentex.ca X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 16:49:57 -0400 To: Matthew Dillon From: Mike Tancsa Subject: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199904212029.NAA08215@apollo.backplane.com> References: <199904211751.NAA31922@misha.cisco.com> <3.0.5.32.19990421161837.01beabf0@staff.sentex.ca> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 01:29 PM 4/21/99 -0700, Matthew Dillon wrote: > >:Hi, >:Just wondering if these changes also have the side effect of fixing the >:nmap problem that crashes 3.x boxes ? i.e. as you wrote back on 3/4/99 >: >: >:> The problem is a deadlock caused by the fgrep. The fgrep is mmap()ing >:> the file, but then it does some really weird crap when dealing with >:> larger files. >:> > > I believe this was fixed in -current. I don't know if it was backported > to -stable. Unfortunately no... It can still lockup a 3.x machine. ---Mike ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Mike Tancsa, tel 01.519.651.3400 Network Administrator, mike@sentex.net Sentex Communications www.sentex.net Cambridge, Ontario Canada To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message