From owner-freebsd-bugs Mon Jun 8 09:31:47 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id JAA15025 for freebsd-bugs-outgoing; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 09:31:47 -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 JAA14960 for ; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 09:31:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.5) id JAA11151; Mon, 8 Jun 1998 09:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 8 Jun 1998 09:30:01 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806081630.JAA11151@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG From: Poul-Henning Kamp Subject: Re: kern/6858: inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense. Reply-To: Poul-Henning Kamp 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: Poul-Henning Kamp 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: Mon, 08 Jun 1998 18:21:49 +0200 In message <19980608102937.49046@io.com>, jher writes: >On Fri, Jun 05, 1998 at 09:42:17AM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: >> In message <199806050341.XAA06128@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>, Garrett Wollman writes: >> >< 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). >> Have you guys tried: >> ln -s h /etc/malloc.conf >This doesn't seem like a complete command here.. what is "h" supposed to be? >A random file? No, I don't have a malloc.conf file either way. man malloc -- Poul-Henning Kamp FreeBSD coreteam member phk@FreeBSD.ORG "Real hackers run -current on their laptop." "ttyv0" -- What UNIX calls a $20K state-of-the-art, 3D, hi-res color terminal To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message