Re: pkg/42837 (www/squid31 abort()s)

[Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR pkg/42837; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Hauke Fath <hauke%Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: tron%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%NetBSD.org@localhost
Subject: Re: pkg/42837 (www/squid31 abort()s)
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:42:06 +0100

 At 19:44 Uhr +0000 17.2.2010, tron%NetBSD.org@localhost wrote:
 >I can think of two reasons why "squid31" crashes:
 >
 >1.) It tries to allocate more memory than it is allowed to by default.
 >    Can you please try to put the following into "/etc/rc.conf.d/squid"
 >    and check whether it makes a difference?
 >
 >start_precmd="set_limits"
 >
 >set_limits()
 >{
 >        ulimit -d `ulimit -d -H`
 >        ulimit -s `ulimit -s -H`
 >}
 
 I'll try that - it would certainly be the easiest way out...
 
 >2.) "squid31" used POSIX threads at least in "diskd". And threads
 >    under NetBSD/sparc 4.x are known to be problematic.
 
 I had squid31 running on the ss20 for a few months; it broke after the
 recent update. OTOH, the squid30 I just built and installed works fine.
 
 > Can you eventually update that system to 5.0_STABLE?
 
 I'd rather not - SMP is still broken in netbsd-5 for sparc, unfortunately.
 The ss20 has two SM71s.
 
        hauke
 
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