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From: sthaug@nethelp.no (Steinar Haug)
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: "Illegal seek writing history file -- throttling"
Date: 06 Jul 1996 09:14:38 GMT
Organization: Nethelp Consulting, Trondheim, Norway
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[Heiko W.Rupp]

|   :|    Server is FreeBSD 2.2-960501-SNAP, inn-1.4unoff3+sharedactive.
|   
|   Try it without sharedactive. While the FreeBSD guys claim that their 
|   mmap() is working, it comes over every half year that there are still 
|   bugs in it. So this could be the same for shared memory.

I tried INN on FreeBSD with mmap. It didn't work - what happened was that
every now and then zeros were added to the end of the active file up to
the nearest 8 kByte boundary. The normal contents, before the zeros, were
okay.

I recompiled without mmap, and now everything works just peachy.

Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no