From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 21 1:31:10 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at [128.130.111.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A539F14D11; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 01:31:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at) Received: from alphard (alphard [128.130.111.37]) by vexpert.dbai.tuwien.ac.at (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA00440; Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:27:46 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 10:27:45 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gerald Pfeifer To: The Hermit Hacker Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 8 Jul 1999, The Hermit Hacker wrote: > Three weeks ago, I, and a few other INN administrators, posted about > FreeBSD -STABLE's inability to run the newest INN code, due to MMAP() race > conditions...essentially, after X hours of run time, on a heavily loaded > INN server, the whole thing locks up solid. > > At that time, Matt pop'd up and stated that he knew of *at least* 6 MMAP() > related race conditions that he was hoping to be able to get fixed "within > a week"...that would have been two weeks ago. Maybe I missed that (I'm only on -stable, not -current), but what's the current situation concerning this issue? Can I dare running the newest INN on -STABLE / -CURRENT or do you still experience these problems? Gerald -- Gerald "Jerry" pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at http://www.dbai.tuwien.ac.at/~pfeifer/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message