Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 11:22:23 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: vasanth raonaik <vasanth.raonaik@gmail.com> Subject: Re: netstat: kvm_read: Bad address Message-ID: <200808251122.23325.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <d9f479c10808250509v2151d0c2ifffa9864ed812204@mail.gmail.com> References: <d9f479c10808250509v2151d0c2ifffa9864ed812204@mail.gmail.com>
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On Monday 25 August 2008 08:09:52 am vasanth raonaik wrote: > Hello Hackers, > > I am facing with this Issue. Though netstat -a does show some output but the > error is consistently seen. Does any one has some pointers to the cause and > fix for the same. Some parts of netstat still use direct kvm access to read kernel variables instead of sysctls for live kernels. If it tries to walk a linked list while the list is being changed, then it can end up following a free'd pointer and get this error. Is the system doing something like adding and deleting lots of psuedo-interfaces, addresses, etc.? -- John Baldwin
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