Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:39:36 -0500 From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@gold.amis.net> Cc: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu>, Kris Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd problems Message-ID: <19980705163936.43005@futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705193933.2144B-100000@gold.amis.net>; from Blaz Zupan on Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:43:10PM %2B0200 References: <199807051656.MAA14927@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> <Pine.BSF.3.96.980705193933.2144B-100000@gold.amis.net>
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On Sun, Jul 05, 1998 at 07:43:10PM +0200, Blaz Zupan woke me up to tell me: > > More details would help here: under what conditions does this > > problem occur? Do you see the 'realloc' error all the time, or just > > when the system is heavily loaded? Exactly what smtp server is this? > > How many users does the server handle mail for? Can you debug this > > by recompiling inetd with the Electric Fence library and analyzing > > the crash dump? If not, can you at least provide a recipe for > > duplicating the bug so that someone else can try debugging it? > > I had a stupid router box running 2.2.5 with 4MB RAM (yeah, it's possible) > which has been recently upgraded to 8MB (amazing, isn't it? :) and after > telneting about 5-6 times into the box, the next try I try to telnet in I > get the same message. So I guess the best way to reproduce this bug is > just to run out of memory. Or install a box with little or no ram and > little or no swap and start a couple of bigger processes and then telnet > in a couple of times. Or open up Netscape, load a page with a couple of animated GIF's, and go home for the night. It'll just keep allocating more memory for the gif until it eats everything. No, of course I haven't done this! ;) *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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