[LCP]memory clobbered before allocated block

[robert at ncdesigns.net]

If your using gdb, have you tried running a backtrace?
You'll find out where in the code is crashed.


On Tue, 30 Mar 2004, Aaron Walker wrote:

> I am working on my first real project, a lightwight multi threaded http
> server.  I have been using siege (a http regression testing/benchmarking
> tool) to test it, and sometimes it'll serve a couple thousand requests
> then dies with:
> 
> memory clobbered before allocated block
> 
> I tried running in gdb and get the same message with an additional:
> 
> Program exited with code 0177.
> 
> It seems to work sometimes and then not others.  For example, within the
> course of writing this email, I've run it 5 times inside gdb resulting
> in:
> 
> run 1: memory clobbered before allocated block (after serving 2100
> requests)
> run 2: run completed (served 137,532 requests)
> run 3: pretty much the same as run 2
> run 4: memory clobbered before allocated block (after 43,395 requests)
> run 5: memory clobbered before allocated block (after 136,644 requests)
> 
> Anyone know what these mean?  How do I go about figuring out what is
> causing it?
> 
> Thanks
>