From owner-freebsd-bugs Thu Jun 4 20:50:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA18402 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:50:56 -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 UAA18391 for ; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:50:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id UAA00848; Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 20:50:02 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806050350.UAA00848@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Garrett Wollman Subject: Re: kern/6858: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. Reply-To: Garrett Wollman Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR kern/6858; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Garrett Wollman To: jher Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kern/6858: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. Date: Thu, 4 Jun 1998 23:41:35 -0400 (EDT) < said: > What I have found out is this. When expire runs it grows to around > 230M in size. Testing with ssh and telnet, both begin to fail when 62M of > Swap is allocated in top. ssh reports the following debug message: You're probably suffering from the same cause as the ``daemons dying'' bug which causes cron on my news server to wet itself after a particularly heavy news burst has caused the machine to run out of memory. This bug was definitely present as early as April 1st and as late as June 1st (the last two dates I've tried to run). -GAWollman -- Garrett A. Wollman | O Siem / We are all family / O Siem / We're all the same wollman@lcs.mit.edu | O Siem / The fires of freedom Opinions not those of| Dance in the burning flame MIT, LCS, CRS, or NSA| - Susan Aglukark and Chad Irschick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message