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From: "G. Paul Ziemba" <pz-freebsd-stable@ziemba.us>
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Subject: Re: stable/11 r321349 crashing immediately
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pz-freebsd-stable@ziemba.us ("G. Paul Ziemba") writes:

>I bumped it from the default 4 to 5 in /boot/loader.conf:
>	kern.kstack_pages=5
>and that prevented this crash. Uptime 5.5 hours at this point (instead of
>1.5 minutes).

% uname -m
amd64

Crashed the next day. 75 kernel stack frames, a new personal best. Now
bumped up to kern.kstack_pages=6. 34 hours since last crash. Will it be
bad if I set kern.kstack_pages to 10?

-- 
G. Paul Ziemba
FreeBSD unix:
12:01AM  up 56 mins, 4 users, load averages: 0.24, 0.25, 0.24