Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 13:32:10 -0600 From: Guy Helmer <ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov> To: cjclark@home.com Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: inetd Output Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.4.05.9902231322190.14923-100000@demios.scl.ameslab.gov> In-Reply-To: <199902231920.OAA26914@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com>
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On Tue, 23 Feb 1999, Crist J. Clark wrote: > I just had a really ugly problem with a mailserver at work. It's a > little ol' PentiumPro with 24 MB RAM and 60 MB of swap. In hindsight, > I should have given it more swap, but it never occured to me that POP > and IMAP servers would be memory intensive. > ... > Some bad behavior from both the inetd on the FreeBSD server, and > Outlook POP and IMAP clients gave me headaches. The inetd process was > returning a (this is from memory, I can't seem to find any logs of the > exact message), > > Warning: inetd: realloc(): junk pointer too low This is a well-known problem that seemed to appear with some frequency when machines ran low on swap space. It's been fixed in 3.1-RELEASE. A different fix for the same problem is in 2.2-STABLE. You might be able to build the inetd sources from ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/3.1-STABLE/src/usr.sbin/inetd/ or, if that doesn't work, ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/2.2.8-STABLE/src/usr.sbin/inetd/ and use it on your 2.2.7 system until you can upgrade to 2.2.8-STABLE or 3.1. Guy Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Candidate, Iowa State University Dept. of Computer Science Research Assistant, Ames Laboratory --- ghelmer@scl.ameslab.gov Research Assistant, Dept. of Computer Science --- ghelmer@cs.iastate.edu http://www.cs.iastate.edu/~ghelmer To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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