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Date:      Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:47:07 -0800
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
To:        Jon Nathan <jon@rupture.net>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: httpsd in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
Message-ID:  <20010328114707.W9431@fw.wintelcom.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103281304040.41958-100000@froody.rupture.net>; from jon@rupture.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:19:26PM -0500
References:  <Pine.BSF.4.33.0103281304040.41958-100000@froody.rupture.net>

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* Jon Nathan <jon@rupture.net> [010328 10:20] wrote:
> hello,
> 
> i'm running apache 1.3.19 on freebsd 4.3-RC cvsupped 03/23/01.  apache
> was built by hand with php4.0.4pl1 and apache_1.3.19+ssl_1.42.  in the
> parent server error log, i am getting thousands of the following
> message:
> 
> httpsd in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
> httpsd in free(): warning: chunk is already free.
> 
> occasionally it will say "page is already free." instead of chunk.
> 
> am i correct in assuming that this means httpsd uses freebsd's libc
> and that the free() function from libc is reporting this warning
> message?
> 
> how should i go about trying to fix it?  it fills up my logfile
> partition - yesterday i had a 730MB error_log.
> 
> i had this same problem on freebsd 3.4-release as well.

Heh, ew!

cd /etc
ln -s A malloc.conf

That'll cause it to die immediately after coming across the error.

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-Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org]
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