Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 09:42:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Gerald Pfeifer <pfeifer@dbai.tuwien.ac.at> Cc: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Known MMAP() race conditions ... ? Message-ID: <199908211642.JAA73693@apollo.backplane.com> References: <Pine.GSO.4.10.9908211025210.13438-100000@alphard.dbai.tuwien.ac.at>
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: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/ I've had fixes for CURRENT in the commit queue for a week but they haven't gone in yet. Once they get put in we will be able to backport the interesting parts to STABLE. There isn't much I can do about it without commit privs. -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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