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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 17:41:25 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Simon Shapiro <Shimon@i-Connect.Net>
To: (Alex G. Bulushev) <bag@sinbin.demos.su>
Subject: Re: problem with free() and junk pointers?
Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, (David Langford) <langfod@dihelix.com>
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Hi Alex G. Bulushev;  On 02-Oct-97 you wrote: 
> > 
> > 
> > I have a three week old current box that I am trying to
> > get more current but I keep getting the following:
> > 
> > make in free(): warning: modified (chunk-) pointer.
> > make in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
> > Segmentation fault - core dumped                                       
> > 
> > 
> > This seems to be a random occurance and makes getting through a make
> > world
> > a wee bit of a pain.
> > 
> > Do I have a bad library or could this be a sign of bad memory?
> > I dont get the normal "cc died due to signal such and such" so I was
> > disconting the memory bit but....
> > 
>  
>  this is feature :) for fsck -p via reboot this err occure for
>  big ( >=8 GB ) disk with big number of inodes ...

>From sendero's /etc/rc:

if [ $1x = autobootx ]; then
        echo Automatic reboot in progress...
        ulimit -t unlimited
        ulimit -f unlimited
        ulimit -d unlimited
        ulimit -s unlimited
        ulimit -c unlimited
        ulimit -m unlimited
        ulimit -l unlimited
        ulimit -u unlimited
        ulimit -h unlimited
        fsck -p
        case $? in
        0)
                ;;

Works every time.  One of these ulimit is wrong.   Too lazy to find which
:-)

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Sincerely Yours, 

Simon Shapiro                                                 Atlas Telecom
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