Subject: Re: malloc.conf
To: Patrick Welche <prlw1@newn.cam.ac.uk>
From: Klaus Klein <kleink@mibh.de>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 07/13/2005 09:11:22
On Fri, Jun 24, 2005 at 06:23:20PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> I'm trying to work out why GraphicsMagick is giving me things like
>
> gm in free(): error: chunk is already free.
>
> and
>
> gm in free(): error: freelist is destroyed.
>
> (also had a pthread warning) Anyway, I have
>
> % echo $MALLOC_OPTIONS
> A
> % ls -l /etc/malloc.conf
> lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 1 Jun 24 18:00 /etc/malloc.conf -> A
> %
>
> Yet I can't generate a coredump. Any idea what I have missed?
Possibly the coredump size resource limit being too small (or
disabling), either in the shell (ulimit -c) or as set by the process
itself?
- Klaus