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Date:      08 Jan 1999 14:36:16 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>
To:        N <niels@bakker.net>
Cc:        "T.D. Brace" <ted@stargate.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: inetd problem
Message-ID:  <xzpsodlevjj.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: N's message of "Fri, 8 Jan 1999 00:42:58 %2B0100 (CET)"
References:  <990108004112.23760A-100000@liquid.tpb.net>

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N <niels@bakker.net> writes:
> > 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.

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@flood.ping.uio.no

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