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Date:      Wed, 05 May 1999 18:45:51 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Seth <seth@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Fun with TCP. 
Message-ID:  <199905060145.SAA03921@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 19:50:05 EDT." <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905051945390.789-100000@freebie.dp.ny.frb.org> 

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Firstly, trap 12 is not a panic.

But what you were doing was just filling kernel memory; eventually 
something died failing to allocate.  It'd be handy to know what this 
was, of course.


> Sorry to follow up on my own post.  Just thought I'd share this.  It turns
> out that whatever was causing the kernel to panic went away after I
> limited kern.maxprocperuid to 250 for the users ( it had been 1043, with
> maxproc set at 1044).
> 
> So this problem seems to have moved.  I'm not sure it's significant at
> this point, but if someone is interested in pursuing it, I'll be happy to
> take whatever traces you need if you send me some mail.  I'm fairly
> confident I can reproduce it if maxprocperuid is set back to (maxproc-1).
> 
> SB
> 
> On Wed, 5 May 1999, Seth wrote:
> 
> > I used the "bounce" utility to redirect localhost:3737 to localhost:3838,
> > and localhost:3838 back to localhost:3737 just to see what would happen. 
> > 
> > (ok, I have too much time on my hands :))
> > 
> > Everything was fine until I telnetted to 3737.  I expected SOMETHING to
> > happen, but I'm not sure why it was this severe (any user can do this):
> > 
> > Kernel paniced, trap 12.  It's reproduceable on all my systems, so I won't
> > dump a whole bunch of info here (if you want it, let me know).
> > 
> > uname:
> > 3.1-STABLE FreeBSD 3.1-STABLE #0: Tue Apr 27 14:41:30 EDT 1999 
> > 
> > 
> > Does this stuff go to this list, or should I send-pr?
> > 
> > SB
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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