Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-23 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > > Besides, a failing malloc should return NULL, shouldn't > it? I would have expected core if I had malloc_options="X" which > I do not (in fact, I have no malloc_options). IF the malloc fails, it should return NULL. But this only happens in the ca

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-22 Thread Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
Daniel, On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 12:01:53AM +0900, Daniel C. Sobral wrote: > Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > > > > Backtracing showed that the problem was due > > to the malloc function inside the get_mem function. > > get_mem() is used to find out the largest possible memory segm

Re: sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-22 Thread Daniel C. Sobral
Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira wrote: > > Backtracing showed that the problem was due > to the malloc function inside the get_mem function. > get_mem() is used to find out the largest possible memory segment. > It incrementaly reduces the segment passed to malloc to alloc. > It is

sysutils/memtest and FreeBSD

2000-07-21 Thread Mario Sergio Fujikawa Ferreira
Hi, I just added sysutils/memtest to the FreeBSD ports tree a couple of days ago. It is a utility to test for faulty memory subsystem. However, I've been having some problems with it. They are not fatal, but really annoying. I am in contact with the author to try working them out.