From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 30 22:02:45 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA12368 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 30 May 1996 22:02:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au (lynx.its.unimelb.EDU.AU [128.250.20.151]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id WAA12358 for ; Thu, 30 May 1996 22:02:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au (8.6.11/8.6.9) id PAA07721; Fri, 31 May 1996 15:01:41 +1000 Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 15:01:41 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Ade Barkah cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: panic: rtfree In-Reply-To: <199605292255.QAA04634@hemi.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 29 May 1996, Ade Barkah wrote: > Well, one of our machines hit a 'panic:rtfree' a few minutes ago. > Unfortunately kern.dumpdev was set to "disabled" (argh). The machine > is running 2.1-R. I glanced at rtfree() in /usr/src/sys/net/route.c, > but of course not having a stack trace (plus my lack of knowledge) > didn't get me anywhere. > > A few minutes prior to the crash, the following was also logged: > > /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo > > (repeated various times.) The kernel has NMBCLUSTERS at 2048, > if that matters (which is ironically smaller than the default, > since we have maxusers=128.) Sorry I don't have much more in- > formation. =-( > > Thanks in advance for any hint which could shed some light > of what actually happened. I had this happen repeatedly on a 2.0.5-R box when removing routes which are not in the routing table. Try while true do route delete default sleep 15 done and it will probably crash the system as described above within an hour.