Date: Fri, 18 Sep 1998 16:45:00 +0200 (SAT) From: Graham Wheeler <gram@cdsec.com> To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD hanging/rebooting Message-ID: <199809181445.QAA03398@cdsec.com>
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While this may or may not be related to the other problems we are
experiencing, I just ran a test program of mine that used to crash
2.2.2 and noticed that it still crashes 2.2.7. I posted a similar
program a long time back; clearly the problem that it reveals still
exists.
When run as root, this program forks child processes until the
system runs out of swap space, after which it is killed by a signal.
The entire O/S then hangs. Alt-F1 etc still works to change VTs,
but nothing else works, and a hard reset is needed.
#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#define MAXPROC 2000
main()
{
int pids[MAXPROC], i;
for (i = 0; i < MAXPROC; i++)
{
pids[i] = fork();
if (pids[i] < 0)
{
perror("fork");
break;
}
else if (pids[i] == 0) /* child */
{
sleep(60);
exit(0);
}
else printf("%d\n", i);
}
sleep(30);
}
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