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Re: ntpd wedged by libc?



On 2/8/2012 19:03, Christos Zoulas wrote:
In 
article<CAGN_6pY9GoO6jOKSGuKJnDF_ZFRom9HaVZhUHBjMEn=5aBUZ4A%mail.gmail.com@localhost>,
David Brownlee<abs%netbsd.org@localhost>  wrote:
On 7 February 2012 23:13, AGC<agcarver+netbsd%acarver.net@localhost>  wrote:
Apologies for asking a potentially stupid question:

Assuming this is just a specific toxic value or values, rather than
some strange state caused by a sequence of events, is it not possible
to run with a version of libc which logs every value passed to dtoa(),
or just run a (quite long running :) test program which tests every
bit pattern?

Nope this is just a memory leak. Convert enough floating point values
and you run out of memory [the missing Bfree(b)]. This should be pulled
up to 5.

christos

That would certainly explain why ntpd triggers it since it's converting lots of floats on a regular basis.

So how can I fix this problem?



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