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Date:      Sat, 9 Feb 2002 14:21:07 -0500
From:      stan <stanb@awod.com>
To:        Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Kernel Panic on 4.5 STABLE
Message-ID:  <20020209192107.GB5041@teddy.fas.com>
In-Reply-To: <20020209190131.GA4280@teddy.fas.com>
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>

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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.

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