Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1998 16:00:55 +0000 From: "Duncan Barclay" <dmlb@ragnet.demon.co.uk> To: Karl Denninger <karl@mcs.net>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, Pierre Beyssac <Pierre.Beyssac@hsc.fr> Subject: Re: MMAP problems Message-ID: <199807271501.IAA28873@mailgate.cadence.com> In-Reply-To: <19980727152658.A24276@mars.hsc.fr> References: <19980725155148.43084@mcs.net>; from Karl Denninger on Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 03:51:48PM -0500
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> On Sat, Jul 25, 1998 at 03:51:48PM -0500, Karl Denninger wrote: > > I believe I have found a rather serious MMAP problem in -CURRENT. > > > > Diablo (the news system) is the test case; with MMAP enabled it will randomly > > write exactly one block (512 bytes) of zeros into the article spool files > > rather than the proper data - its almost like an update via MMAP isn't > > I have seen an extremely similar problem, both on 2.2.6 and > -current, with INN 2.0 configured to use MMAP for the active file. > It is fairly easy to reproduce by doing a "ctlinnd newgroup". After > that, a bunch of zeroes appears in the active file. > > I haven't bothered investigating the problem for lack of time > because configuring INN to use read() just works and because I > wasn't sure it was a FreeBSD problem, but I'm ready to do any > testing I can to help fix this. > -- Ditto same problem with inn on -2.2.5, and inn 1.5.2. I seem to remember that this was documented in the inn instructions? Duncan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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