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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: ircd leak in FreeBSD
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In article <4tmksg$415@client2.news.psi.net> dnelson@emsphone.com (Dan Nelson) writes:
>> [ ircd chokes on freebsd ]

>> Use the gnumalloc library.

>I forget when phkmalloc went into BSD (Sep. 95 / after 2.1.0-RELEASE?)
>but you might want to try pulling malloc.c from 2.1.5-RELEASE or 2.2. 

The original poster said that only rebooting fixes the problem, so
it can't be (just) a malloc problem.

I guess output from top, ps aux, and pstat -s before and after exiting
the server might be helpful.

-- Richard
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