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Subject: Re: double panic
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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, G.P. wrote:

> already  did ...). I installed 19990630-SNAP (3.2) and 3.[12]-RELEASE.
> All systems behave the same, but the following lines are tested only
> on
> 3.2-RELEASE:
> 
> I used /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC, copied it to CUSTOM, increased
> maxusers to 512, compiled and installed the kernel. After boot, I

  maxusers > 128 can be troublesome.  Lower it to 128.

> started the following code as a simple user:

  "simple user"?  What is that?  "root"?

> 
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> pid_t p;
> 
> while ((p=fork())>0);
> if (p==0) pause();
> return(0);
> }

  That just forks over and over again.

> The systems panics (double fault). I am not able to debug the core:
> kernel symbol `gd_curpcb' not found.
> No stack.

  You probably can't debug the core, because maxusers is so large.

Tom



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