From owner-freebsd-current Sat Feb 13 10:18:06 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA29280 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 10:18:06 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from liquid.tpb.net (drum-n-bass.party-animals.com [194.134.94.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA29246 for ; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 10:18:02 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from niels@bakker.net) Received: from localhost (niels@localhost) by liquid.tpb.net (8.9.2/8.8.8/Debian/GNU) with ESMTP id TAA16562; Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:17:50 +0100 (CET) Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 19:17:50 +0100 (CET) From: N X-Sender: niels@liquid.tpb.net To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: inetd problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <9902131911240.16541-100000@liquid.tpb.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message