Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 09:11:35 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com> To: Edwin Culp <edwinlculp@yahoo.com> Cc: Tuc <tuc@ttsg.com> Subject: Re: Signal 6's with ruby apps such as portupgrade and pkg Message-ID: <20040113090728.R63000@carver.gumbysoft.com> In-Reply-To: <20040113160919.1900.qmail@web13006.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040113160919.1900.qmail@web13006.mail.yahoo.com>
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On Tue, 13 Jan 2004, Edwin Culp wrote: > > I renamed it, tried, and it didn't work. I went to > > look, and > > there was a pkgdb.db from 4 days ago there?! So I > > deleted it, and now it > > seems to work! > Tux, > > mine is now working thanks to a lot suggestions from > folks here and on the questions list that have had > similar problems. > Something else you might be tripping over is a change to the statfs system call prior to 5.2. This is particularly important if you haven't been following -current. You need to rebuild anything using statfs or you'll have wierd failures. In your case it apears to be a corrupted db but if you're having other wierd problems, try rebuilding the affected apps. > The two significant things that I've done are to link > malloc.conf to aj > > ln -s aj /etc/malloc.conf This turns off the fatal flag and the filling of memory before use. The J option in particular will improve performance. -- Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@gumbysoft.com | www.FreeBSD.org
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