From owner-freebsd-current Mon Aug 24 02:59:42 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA28040 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:59:42 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from itesec.hsc.fr (itesec.hsc.fr [192.70.106.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA28030 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 02:59:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pb@hsc.fr) Received: from mars.hsc.fr (mars.hsc.fr [192.70.106.44]) by itesec.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.5/itesec-1.12-nospam) with ESMTP id LAA14025; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:58:18 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from pb@localhost) by mars.hsc.fr (8.8.8/8.8.8/pb-19980526) id LAA15562; Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:58:17 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from pb) Message-ID: <19980824115816.A15512@mars.hsc.fr> Date: Mon, 24 Aug 1998 11:58:16 +0200 From: Pierre Beyssac To: Alexander Sanda , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: encountered possible VM bug ? References: <19980824111923.A207@compufit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.92.8i In-Reply-To: <19980824111923.A207@compufit.at>; from Alexander Sanda on Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 11:19:23AM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, Aug 24, 1998 at 11:19:23AM +0200, Alexander Sanda wrote: > "realloc() junk pointer, too low" as an error message from inetd. > > I had to kill and restart inetd to restore normal operation. > > What the hell happened to inetd ? Under out of memory conditions, inetd tends to fall in a weird state. Apparently this is an interaction between the malloc library and inetd, but nobody has managed yet to find out exactly what happens. Maybe error checking is lacking somewhere. -- Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message