Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 10:23:28 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Grant Peel <gpeel@thenetnow.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Console Messages Message-ID: <44k4jxo4jz.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> In-Reply-To: <8EF88817C5E041E792C26B219F73C665@GRANTDESKTOP> (Grant Peel's message of "Sat, 27 Nov 2010 19:22:17 -0500") References: <8EF88817C5E041E792C26B219F73C665@GRANTDESKTOP>
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"Grant Peel" <gpeel@thenetnow.com> writes: > I am using FreeBSD 8.0 and am getting lots of these: > > negative sbsize for uid = 0 > +negative sbsize for uid = 0 > +negative sbsize for uid = 0 > +negative sbsize for uid = 0 > +negative sbsize for uid = 0 > > any ideas what it means or how to cure it? Hmm. Interesting. You may need to go -hackers for this... Apparently a socket buffer is claiming to use a negative amount of space. Offhand I'd guess that it wrapped around, but there seem to be checks in place to avoid that. It's something running as root, which should help you track it down (most network daemons should be run as other users anyway).
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