From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 8 21:31:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CFDB37B422 for ; Tue, 8 May 2001 21:31:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id f494Vq113160; Tue, 8 May 2001 21:31:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 8 May 2001 21:31:52 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: David Xu Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: kenel panic, vm_map_entry_create: kernel resources exhausted Message-ID: <20010508213152.T18676@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <002f01c0d840$5ed38180$3601a8c0@xyf> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <002f01c0d840$5ed38180$3601a8c0@xyf>; from bsddiy@163.net on Wed, May 09, 2001 at 12:27:33PM +0800 X-all-your-base: are belong to us. Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Don't cc both -stable and -questions. * David Xu [010508 21:25] wrote: > > I have found that if I use GENERIC kernel config, I can not trigger this > bug, > default maxusers value in GENERIC kernel config file is 32, this is fine, > if I change it to 128 and recompile/install kernel, I can use the fork bomb > to > crash kernel. it seems this problem is RAM size and maxusers parameter > related. what max value of maxusers should I use if my RAM is 64M? Obviously 32 works best for you, I would stick with it. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [alfred@freebsd.org] Instead of asking why a piece of software is using "1970s technology," start asking why software is ignoring 30 years of accumulated wisdom. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message