I believe that I can confirm what all you guys have been reporting with analog 5 and Mac OS X.
The problem is definitely with the DNS lookups, not with log size. At the top of my script that runs analog I kill -HUP lookupd, and it helps, but does not always run. Regards, Charles At 11:29 PM -0400 9/27/01, Jason Linhart wrote: >On 9/27/01 1:01 PM Stephen Turner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >>On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Mark Edwards wrote: >>> >>> Stephen -- are you basically telling us that analog 5.03 is not stable on >>> OS X? Is there a version that doesn't have this problem? >> >>Well, of course I haven't got OS X to test it on. There have been >>intermittent reports of malloc problems with all version 5s though. >. . . >>What confuses me is that I've had no similar reports on any of the (other) >>BSDs. > >OS X does not use the same memory allocator as any of the other BSDs. >They also have added alot of memory heap corruption checking code that, >while generally a good idea, can produce very misleading error messages. > >The circumstantial evidence points to Analog writing outside of allocated >blocks, but it is exceptionally difficult to pin down what is really >happening. I worked on this with someone at Apple tech support for awhile >and neither of us could really prove where the problems might be (in the >program or in the OS). > >It might be interesting to use the memory allocator from the MacOS 9 >version of Analog on OS X. It uses a completely different approach, that >does waste a bit of memory, but it is faster and less vulnerable to >problems caused by writing outside of block boundaries. > >DNS lookups are known to be broken on OS X through 10.0.4, they will >crash eventually. That is a know bug in the OS, and might be fixed in >10.1 (or it might not, they haven't said yet). > >I will retest both of these when I get my copy of 10.1, but that will be >a few weeks yet. > >Jason > >----------------- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >----------------- >Dr. Seuss books . . . can be read and enjoyed on several levels. For >example, 'One Fish Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish' can be deconstructed >as a searing indictment of the narrow-minded binary counting system. > -- Peter van der Linden, Expert C Programming, Deep C Secrets > > >+------------------------------------------------------------------------ >| This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this >| mailing list, go to >| http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html >| >| List archives are available at >| http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >| http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ >| http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 >+------------------------------------------------------------------------ +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
