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Date:      Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:06:48 +0200
From:      Niki Denev <nike_d@cytexbg.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   kernel or syslogd problem under exterme load (many processes and filedescs open)
Message-ID:  <41FE1F58.1050100@cytexbg.com>

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Hello,

Recently while testing a program on a 5.3-STABLE machine
with dual Athlon MP 2200+ (SMP enabled), i made a mistake
and the program basicaly became a fork() bomb.
It flooded my dmesg and messages with these messages (which is normal):

Jan 29 18:13:20 tormentor kernel: maxproc limit exceeded by uid 1001, 
please see tuning(7) and login.conf(5).
Jan 29 18:13:25 tormentor kernel: kern.ipc.maxpipekva exceeded; see 
tuning(7)

but i've also noticed several mangled messages in the log, like these :

Jan 29 18:08:25 tormentor kernel: kernmaxpr.ipc.maxpipekocva excee 
limidet exd;ce sedeeed t buninyg( u7)id 1001, please see tuni
ng(7) and login.conf(5).
Jan 29 18:08:28 tormentor kernel:

Probably this is some sort of race condition, either in the kernel 
output or syslogd?


--niki



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