From owner-freebsd-current Sat Jul 25 14:37:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA02235 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:37:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freefall.pipeline.ch (intranet.pipeline.ch [195.134.128.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA02227 for ; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:36:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andre@pipeline.ch) Received: from pipeline.ch ([195.134.128.41]) by freefall.pipeline.ch (Netscape Mail Server v2.02) with ESMTP id AAA304; Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:35:39 +0200 Message-ID: <35BA4F9A.3E28B29E@pipeline.ch> Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 23:35:22 +0200 From: "IBS / Andre Oppermann" Organization: Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03 [en] (WinNT; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Karl Denninger CC: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: MMAP problems References: <19980725155148.43084@mcs.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Karl Denninger wrote: > > Hi folks, > > I believe I have found a rather serious MMAP problem in -CURRENT. > > Diablo (the news system) is the test case; with MMAP enabled it will randomly > write exactly one block (512 bytes) of zeros into the article spool files > rather than the proper data - its almost like an update via MMAP isn't > actually happening when it should, and is being thrown away. This shows > up as a corrupted batch when you try to transmit to others. > > I'm working on trying to isolate this, and will have more when I know > better what is going on. Terry mentioned something like this some time ago, he looked a little bit more into it and said it is also broken on -stable. You might check the archives. -- Andre Oppermann CEO / Geschaeftsfuehrer Internet Business Solutions Ltd. (AG) Hardstrasse 235, 8005 Zurich, Switzerland Fon +41 1 277 75 75 / Fax +41 1 277 75 77 http://www.pipeline.ch ibs@pipeline.ch To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message