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From: Alwyn Schoeman <alwyns@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>
To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group <Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca>
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Subject: Re: Error after upgrading to 3.4 + maybe 2000?
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Hi,

Can it be that when you compile a FreeBSD kernel it hardcodes the memory size somewhere, I know it sounds absurd, but I had it on 16 Mb when I last compiled, and I've only been getting it since moving to 8Mb.

You could be right, I just can't see why it would be doing it, it shouldn't happen.

Interesting that you should mention the e**(i*pi)+1=0 part, I don't think many people know of it :)

On Wed, Jan 05, 2000 at 06:06:39AM -0800, Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group wrote:
> In message <20000105113157.A4140@littlecruncher.prizm.dhs.org>, Alwyn 
> Schoeman
> writes:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I'm using 3.4 on a 486DX2-66 with 8 Mb ram.  Just before the end of last
> > year I started getting the following error messages as mail:
> > 
> > CRON in malloc(): warning: pointer to wrong page.
> > 
> > This happens for atrun, newsyslog and adjkerntz?
> > 
> > Can anyone shine any light on a solution or maybe fixes in later versions?
> 
> I had this problem under 3.1.  I also had inetd get into a confused 
> state where it too would print messages of junk pointers, then close 
> connections.  Upgrading the machine from 32 MB to 80 MB fixed the 
> problem for me.
> 
> >From what I could tell, heavy VM load, e.g. high scan & page out rates, 
> not necessarily at the time of the error, usually prior to, would 
> usually precede the errors.
> 
> 
> Regards,                       Phone:  (250)387-8437
> Cy Schubert                      Fax:  (250)387-5766
> Sun/DEC Team, UNIX Group    Internet:  Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca
> ITSD
> Province of BC
>                       "e**(i*pi)+1=0"
> 
> 
> 


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