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Date:      Sat, 28 May 2005 10:49:49 -0700
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        K?vesd?n G?bor <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Abort rap from cron
Message-ID:  <20050528174949.GA48170@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <4298A622.3020100@t-hosting.hu>
References:  <4298A622.3020100@t-hosting.hu>

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On Sat, May 28, 2005 at 07:10:58PM +0200, K?vesd?n G?bor wrote:
> Hello,
>=20
> since I upgraded to 5.3-p15 from 5.3 the cron daemon sometimes send me=20
> an e-mail, that contains "Abort trap". Nothing seems to go wrong anyway,=
=20
> but it might be a source of troubles, if my cron scripts can't run normal=
ly.
> Do You know anything about this effect?

This can happen on SMP machines if you exec a lot of processes at once
(more than 16 simultaneous execs).  5.4 contains the
vm.exec_map_entries tunable that allows you to increase this number.

Kris

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