Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 15:08:56 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: felix@royal.net Cc: "Randy A. Katz" <randyk@ccsales.com>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HELP - Has anyone seen this? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029150705.16678A-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971029133740.1568A-100000@blue.bad.bris.ac.uk>
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On Wed, 29 Oct 1997, Aled Treharne wrote: > > It shouldn't stop su to root since it's long after inetd gets through. It > > shouldn't do anything to ftp either, unless it never gets started. What > > error messages are you seeing? > > When I log in I get > inetd in realloc(): warning: junk pointer, too low to make sense > and then the login carries on as normal. FTP logins get the same error > after logging in but the connection is immediately closed again. When I > tried to su I got something like > Cannot malloc() > or something like that - I'm not sure since I have no longer been able to > reproduce the error. In fact the whole problem seem to be very strange > since it comes and goes. We also had another problem today with the > server running out of swap space. Very strange since only 2 users were > logged in one was idle (only process was shell) and the other was using > pine. Pine decided to hog all the memory and the server went ape. What version of Pine is this? Versions <3.96 are known to have hang-and-suck-memory bugs. Check top or vmstat -pigs for out-of-control processes, and kill them. Also keep an eye on swap usage using top or swapinfo. How much physical memory and swap do you have, anyway? > I'm totally at a loss as to what could possibly cause this. Is this a > problem with 2.2.5? Not that I've noticed, but I have 40MB of RAM in this machine, and it's difficult to get it to swap. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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