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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeeds.sol.net!news.webspan.net!usenet From: gpalmer@webspan.net (Gary Palmer) Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: INN 1.5.1 w/MMAP OK on FreeBSD-2.2? Date: 1 Apr 1997 03:20:59 GMT Organization: WebSpan Inc., New Jersey Lines: 16 Sender: gpalmer@mutara.noc.webspan.net Message-ID: <5hpuur$5q8@news.webspan.net> References: <5havfd$hd@gosset.maths.tcd.ie> NNTP-Posting-Host: mutara.noc.webspan.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au news.software.nntp:31668 comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38165 In article <5havfd$hd@gosset.maths.tcd.ie>, ajudge@maths.tcd.ie (Alan Judge) writes: > I'm just about to install an INN-1.5.1 system on a FreeBSD server > (running 2.2-RELEASE, soon to be 2.2.1-RELEASE). Does anyone know > if the past problems with mmap on FreeBSD are now fixed? I'd like > to know if I can safely set active and DBZ to use MMAP (and whether > the various shared active patches for nnrpd will work). MMAP is indeed fixed in 2.2. I've been running with -current (and later the 2.2 branch after the branch was made) on my news server for several months with no kernel problems (just drives dying). Gary -- Gary Palmer FreeBSD Core Team Member FreeBSD: Turning PC's into workstations. See http://www.FreeBSD.ORG/ for info