From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Feb 9 11:20:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sumter.awod.com (sumter.awod.com [208.140.99.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47EEB37B41D for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 11:20:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from teddy.fas.com (pcp01008475pcs.mplsnt01.sc.comcast.net [68.58.200.215]) by sumter.awod.com (8.8.7/8.12.2) with ESMTP id OAA47005 for ; Sat, 9 Feb 2002 14:20:43 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from stanb@awod.com) Received: from stan by teddy.fas.com with local (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16Zd3b-0001Jf-00 for ; Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:21:07 -0500 Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 14:21:07 -0500 From: stan To: Free BSD Questions list Subject: Re: Kernel Panic on 4.5 STABLE Message-ID: <20020209192107.GB5041@teddy.fas.com> Mail-Followup-To: Free BSD Questions list References: <20020209160959.GA1010@teddy.fas.com> <20020209182255.2191C24D28@mail.ricin.net> <20020209184456.GA4026@teddy.fas.com> <20020209184859.30E4924D28@mail.ricin.net> <20020209190131.GA4280@teddy.fas.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020209190131.GA4280@teddy.fas.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i X-Editor: gVim X-Operating-System: Debian GNU/Linux X-Kernel-Version: 2.4.17 X-Uptime: 14:19:21 up 5 days, 19:54, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.02, 0.00 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 02:01:31PM -0500, stan wrote: > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:49:20PM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: > > On Saturday 09 February 2002 19:44, you wrote: > > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:23:16PM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: > > > > Set MAXUSERS to 0 > > > > > > OK, I'll try that as soon as it finsihes fsck'ing 40G :-( again :-( > > > > > > What's the working theory here? > > > > Well, the option has changed somewhere between 4.4 and 4.5 (it's > > mentioned in UPDATING) and setting it to 0 is the new default (you do > > compile a new GENERIC after building world?) which means that the > > kernel will dynamically control the max nr of processes. As 64 isn't > > very high this might have caused the panics you're seeing. > > > OK, I see this theroy. I'm runing periodic right now, using > the new kernel. > > This machine was installed a month or so agao, so it was probably > installed at 4.4, an has been cvsup'd several times since. > > Uh, no, I had not thought about recompiling GENEIRC :-( > So the one that works is whatever was put in place by the first isntall. > > ARGH! It just paniced again. Exact same place, exact same process, exact > same memort pointers. > A strings on kernel.GENERIC confirms that it is a 4.4 RELEASE version. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message