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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.eng.convex.com!newshost.convex.com!newsgate.duke.edu!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!usenet2.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!usenet1.news.uk.psi.net!uknet!uknet!newsfeed.ed.ac.uk!edcogsci!richard From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin) Subject: Re: ircd leak in FreeBSD X-Nntp-Posting-Host: pitcairn Message-ID: <DvGF79.BJ9@cogsci.ed.ac.uk> Sender: cnews@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (C News Software) Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh References: <4tln4t$5e7@uhura.phoenix.net> <4tlsrb$ic4@news.inc.net> <4tmksg$415@client2.news.psi.net> Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 10:16:21 GMT Lines: 17 In article <4tmksg$415@client2.news.psi.net> dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) writes: >> [ ircd chokes on freebsd ] >> Use the gnumalloc library. >I forget when phkmalloc went into BSD (Sep. 95 / after 2.1.0-RELEASE?) >but you might want to try pulling malloc.c from 2.1.5-RELEASE or 2.2. The original poster said that only rebooting fixes the problem, so it can't be (just) a malloc problem. I guess output from top, ps aux, and pstat -s before and after exiting the server might be helpful. -- Richard -- Margaret Thatcher, Bill Gates, Canter & Siegel, Ian Paisley, Rupert Murdoch