Dan Mahoney, System Admin
danm@prime.gushi.org
Tue Feb 28 03:02:53 UTC 2006
On Mon, 27 Feb 2006, Vernon Schryver wrote:
I can't imagine this wouldn't be fixed in 5.5 release, but try cvsupping
to it and see.
-Dan
>> From: "Bolmerg-Berliner Ludger - Munich-MR"
>
>> There is a problem report and a suggested patch for kern_event.c
>> available that may solve the issue. I had similar problems on FreeBSD
>> 5.4 which went away when I applied the patch
>> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=75795
>>
>> The problem has been fixed in FreeBSD 6.0
>
>>> Kludges like occassionally trying open("/dev/null") to see if file
>>> descripters are short and then restarting seem too nasty.
>>>
>>> What should I do?
>
> That patch does fix the problem, but I'm not sure it answers the
> question. Should I
>
> 1. advise anyone who sees problems that might be related to to
> apply that patch? (e.g. with this thread in the archives for
> this mailing list)
>
> 2. do as another person advised me privately, and tell people to
> upgrade to FreeBSD 6.0?
>
> 3. kludge dccm and dccifd to restart themselves when the current
> free FD is large?
>
> 4. write a script that would apply that kernel patch?
>
> 5. include a close() function in the DCC source to replace the crazy
> version in the FreeBSD libc_r that does nothing if fstat() fails?
>
> I'm inclined to go with #1 and follow #2 for my own systems.
>
>
> Now if I could only figure out the original Solaris problem....
>
>
> Vernon Schryver vjs@rhyolite.com
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