From owner-freebsd-current Sat Apr 18 07:53:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA20538 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 07:53:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from frmug.org (frmug-gw.frmug.org [193.56.58.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA20529 for ; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 14:52:57 GMT (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by frmug.org (8.8.8/frmug-2.2/nospam) with UUCP id QAA03168; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:52:29 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pb@fasterix.frmug.org) Received: (from pb@localhost) by fasterix.frmug.org (8.8.8/8.8.5/pb-19970302) id QAA08470; Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:50:39 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <19980418165039.MO06387@@> Date: Sat, 18 Apr 1998 16:50:39 +0200 From: pb@fasterix.freenix.org (Pierre Beyssac) To: perlsta@fang.cs.sunyit.edu (Alfred Perlstein) Cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems w/ Linux EMU References: <199804172257.PAA01087@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: Mutt 0.59.1e Mime-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: ; from Alfred Perlstein on Apr 17, 1998 19:07:54 +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Alfred Perlstein writes: > mostly that i get "leaking" shared memory, this has been a problem as of a > month ago or so. > > after staroffice 4 has been running for a few seconds it locks up and i do > a ipcs and see all my shared segments are used up. This is not a kernel leak. Shared memory shown by ipcs is freed by the application, not the kernel, because there is no other way to do. If the application fails to clean up (because it dumps core, for example), use "ipcrm" to clean up after. > also linux programs attempting to use raw sockets don't seem to work > anymore. all this "breakage" (for me) seems to have occured about a month > or so ago. Being more specific wouldn't hurt. I don't have any problems with a Linux traceroute and ping, with a Linux emulator compiled on April 1st. -- Pierre Beyssac pb@fasterix.frmug.org pb@fasterix.freenix.org {Free,Net,Open}BSD, Linux : il y a moins bien, mais c'est plus cher Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager@EU.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message