From owner-freebsd-current Wed Apr 21 22:45:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from backup.af.speednet.com.au (af.speednet.com.au [202.135.206.244]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8628C15909 for ; Wed, 21 Apr 1999 22:43:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from backup.zippynet.iol.net.au (backup.zippynet.iol.net.au [172.22.2.4]) by backup.af.speednet.com.au (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA01846; Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:09:49 +1000 (EST) Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 14:09:49 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-Sender: andyf@backup.zippynet.iol.net.au To: Mike Tancsa Cc: Matthew Dillon , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: solid NFS patch #6 avail for -current - need testers files) In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19990421164957.00fab1f0@staff.sentex.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >: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. > This is the only thing stopping me from upgrading our production machines to 3.1-STABLE. Please, please, please backport these fixes! -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speed Internet Services http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message