From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 28 11:47:13 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3DC737B727; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:47:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f2SJl7G17702; Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:47:07 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2001 11:47:07 -0800 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Jon Nathan Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: httpsd in free(): warning: chunk is already free. Message-ID: <20010328114707.W9431@fw.wintelcom.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from jon@rupture.net on Wed, Mar 28, 2001 at 01:19:26PM -0500 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Jon Nathan [010328 10:20] wrote: > hello, > > i'm running apache 1.3.19 on freebsd 4.3-RC cvsupped 03/23/01. apache > was built by hand with php4.0.4pl1 and apache_1.3.19+ssl_1.42. in the > parent server error log, i am getting thousands of the following > message: > > httpsd in free(): warning: chunk is already free. > httpsd in free(): warning: chunk is already free. > > occasionally it will say "page is already free." instead of chunk. > > am i correct in assuming that this means httpsd uses freebsd's libc > and that the free() function from libc is reporting this warning > message? > > how should i go about trying to fix it? it fills up my logfile > partition - yesterday i had a 730MB error_log. > > i had this same problem on freebsd 3.4-release as well. Heh, ew! cd /etc ln -s A malloc.conf That'll cause it to die immediately after coming across the error. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] Represent yourself, show up at BABUG http://www.babug.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message