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Date:      Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:17:50 +0100 (CET)
From:      N <niels@bakker.net>
To:        Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
Cc:        freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inetd problem
Message-ID:  <9902131911240.16541-100000@liquid.tpb.net>
In-Reply-To: <xzpsodlevjj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>

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On 8 Jan 1999, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:

>>> Can anyone tell me if the inetd realloc (and other) problems have been
>>> fixed yet?  Searching Deja News shows conflicting reports.  I checked
>>> the current diffs, and built version 1.46 - is this a safe version to
>>> use?  It's been running on my local workstation for a few days now, but
>>> it really doesn't have any load on it.  I'd like to copy it up to our
>>> webservers, but thought I would ask first.
>> If you mean the "dying daemons" problem, it has probably been fixed in
>> version 1.105 of src/sys/vm/swap_pager.c.
> No. People are constantly confused over this issue. There is (was) a
> bug in inetd related to the way it handles signals, which caused it to
> output "junk pointer: too low to make sense" (or sometimes "too high
> to make sense") when under heavy load. It is not the same bug as the
> dying daemons bug. There have been two attemps to fix the inetd bug:
> one by Matt Dillon in rev. 1.42 and 1.43, and one by me (based on
> patches submitted by Graham Wheeler) in rev. 1.44 and 1.45. I haven't
> heard any complaints about the inetd bug lately, so I'll tentatively
> postulate that I succeeded.

Did someone bring it back?  Telnet output:

Escape character is '^]'.
inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
inetd in free(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense.
Connection closed by foreign host.

That's to a freshly rebooted machine (with 16 MB memory, 96 MB swap) that
was doing a `make buildworld' when the X server on another machine that
displayed the xterm with an rsh session to it.  Since ssh ain't aware of
Kerberos I'll have to attach a console to look into this further.  Running
3.1-BETA, cvsup'ed Feb 10, world and kernel.

Sorry, no kernel debugger :( but I'd appreciate it if someone would point
me to documentation outlining how to configure the port speed in boot0/
boot1, and what option to set to still allow unattended reboots after a
crash.


	-- Niels.


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