From owner-freebsd-net Sat Jun 10 0:17:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mailman.zeta.org.au (mailman.zeta.org.au [203.26.10.16]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03F7237C2C2 for ; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 00:17:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bde@zeta.org.au) Received: from bde.zeta.org.au (bde.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.102]) by mailman.zeta.org.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA14612; Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:17:19 +1000 Date: Sat, 10 Jun 2000 17:17:16 +1000 (EST) From: Bruce Evans X-Sender: bde@besplex.bde.org To: Alex Rousskov Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: corrupted poll(2) results? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alex Rousskov wrote: > Can anybody offer any insight? Is there anything that can make poll fail when > more than 4K FDs are in use? There is a possibly-related kernel bug in FreeBSD-3.3. It sometimes corrupts kernel fd tables and causes the whole kernel to fail. It is sometimes activated by allocating lots of fd's and forking and exiting in a child process. See PRi 16568. Upgrade to FreeBSD-stable (3.x after 3.4-release) yesterday. Bruce To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message