On Thursday 06:05 AM 1/10/2008, Nick Miller wrote:
I have been having some issues getting AOLServer
4.5 or 4.0.10 to run on Mac OS X 10.5
I compiled and installed AOL Server and Tcl on Mac OS X 10.5 with noÂ
issues but then tried to run the NSDs only to get a "SegmentationÂ
Fault".
The short answer: you need to explicitly set
ulimit -n (open files)--even though it will look
like it's set to 256 by default. Any valid value
(including 256) will resolve the problem.
The longer answer: the file limit code in
nsd/fd.c is no longer valid, because of this:
--------------------------------------------------------
setrlimit() now returns with errno set to EINVAL in places that histori-
cally succeeded. It no longer accepts "rlim_cur = RLIM_INFINITY" for
RLIM_NOFILE. Use "rlim_cur = min(OPEN_MAX, rlim_max)".
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man2/setrlimit.2.html
--------------------------------------------------------
And sure enough, AOLserver 4 sets rl.rlim_cur =
rl.rlim_max at nsd/fd.c:128 when rl.rlim_max
equals RLM_INFINITY, resulting in an invalid
setrlimit() call. Which would be obvious but for
another problem: for some reason, the subsequent
Ns_Log() call that passes in rl.rlim_max to
report this error causes memory corruption that
results in the segmentation fault (apparently
because the fmt parameter to Ns_Log somehow gets
mangled). The AOLserver code there looks fine to
me, so that may be a bug in OS X.
- John
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