From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 5 18:47: 5 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64702158DC for ; Wed, 5 May 1999 18:47:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA03921; Wed, 5 May 1999 18:45:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199905060145.SAA03921@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Seth Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Fun with TCP. In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 19:50:05 EDT." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 18:45:51 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message