Re: netstat wierdness?

From: Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2007 13:16:34 -0700
Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> Julian Elischer <julian_at_elischer.org> writes:
>> answering myself..
>> comes from having options LOCK_PROFILING in my kernel.
>> adding the same to /etc/make.conf and recompiling netstat and libkvm helped.
>> (not sure if both are needed)
> 
> This is very bad.  LOCK_PROFILING should have no visible effect on
> userland.  That is precisely what xinpcb, xunpcb, xtcpcb etc. are for:
> to isolate userland from kernel structures.  They should not contain
> any locks or anything else which would be affected by LOCK_PROFILING
> or other kernel options.
> 
> DES

sockstat actually told me that all those were the wrong size, so apparently
they change size too.(!?)

I haven't gone to look at their definition yet, but as you say, it sounds like
something was done wrong.
Received on Tue Mar 13 2007 - 20:23:02 UTC

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