From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 25 23:33:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA07442 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:33:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.30.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA07437 for ; Wed, 25 Feb 1998 23:33:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kuku@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA29488 for freebsd-current@freefall.cdrom.com; Thu, 26 Feb 1998 07:38:42 GMT (envelope-from kuku) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 1998 07:38:42 GMT From: Christoph Kukulies Message-Id: <199802260738.HAA29488@gilberto.physik.RWTH-Aachen.DE> To: freebsd-current@freefall.FreeBSD.org Subject: inetd realloc junk pointer Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm running a 2.2.5 system with bisdn-0.97, Xaccel, qvwm, netscape communicator (the linux version I believe), all together an explosive mixture ;-). Last night I did a several hour download of a larger piece of sw through netscape and had a 20s ping running to keep the connection alive at any rate. This morning I tried to ftp from another machine to the FreeBSD machine on the local ethernet and got on the client side : inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer too low to make sense. That came obviously from the FreeBSD ftpd/inetd . I looked at the swap space which had only 2MB free (of 130MB). So the machine seemed to have run out of swap during the night or at least very close to the limit and the ftpd invocation might have scraped the top. Rebooting was the only resort at that time. I'm just reporting this in case someone might have an idea which realloc might have been the cause in inetd and if a more declarative message might be issued in that case. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message