Freeing free block

[Lars Eilebrecht <La...@unix-ag.org>]

Hi,

I'm using a 1.3b3-dev (10th nov.) and sometimes see
a couple of "Ouch!  Freeing free block" in the error log along with
some "child process 27936 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL"
when restarting via HUP. It only happens when there are active
connections...

Anyone seeing this too? (I tested on Solaris 2.4)


ciao...
-- 
Lars Eilebrecht      - "Keep computers away from windows"                    
sfx@unix-ag.org        (Garfinkel/Spafford: Practical Unix & Internet Security)      

Re: Freeing free block

[Lars Eilebrecht <La...@unix-ag.org>]

According to Dean Gaudet:

>  Can you run with -DALLOC_DEBUG (and -g)?  It should catch the problem for
>  this earlier and generate a core file ... -DALLOC_DEBUG will chew up some
>  extra CPU time, it sets all allocated bytes to 0xa5, and compares them
>  again later when it's ready to use them again. 

I tested it, but with a new checkout 1.3b3-dev and wasn't able to reproduce
it again... *shrug* either it was magically fixed or my machine was just
in a bad mood when I previously tested it.


ciao...
-- 
Lars Eilebrecht                         - There's always one more bug.
sfx@unix-ag.org
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Re: Freeing free block

[Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>]

Can you run with -DALLOC_DEBUG (and -g)?  It should catch the problem for
this earlier and generate a core file ... -DALLOC_DEBUG will chew up some
extra CPU time, it sets all allocated bytes to 0xa5, and compares them
again later when it's ready to use them again. 

Dean

On Tue, 11 Nov 1997, Lars Eilebrecht wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm using a 1.3b3-dev (10th nov.) and sometimes see
> a couple of "Ouch!  Freeing free block" in the error log along with
> some "child process 27936 still did not exit, sending a SIGKILL"
> when restarting via HUP. It only happens when there are active
> connections...
> 
> Anyone seeing this too? (I tested on Solaris 2.4)
> 
> 
> ciao...
> -- 
> Lars Eilebrecht      - "Keep computers away from windows"                    
> sfx@unix-ag.org        (Garfinkel/Spafford: Practical Unix & Internet Security)      
>