From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 8 18:31:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA29720 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:31:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from luke.pmr.com (luke.pmr.com [206.224.65.132]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA29715 for ; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 18:31:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bob@localhost) by luke.pmr.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA11320; Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:31:11 -0500 (CDT) From: Bob Willcox Message-Id: <199608090131.UAA11320@luke.pmr.com> Subject: Re: "Panick" - help needed... To: hasty@rah.star-gate.com (Amancio Hasty) Date: Thu, 8 Aug 1996 20:31:10 -0500 (CDT) Cc: rminnich@Sarnoff.COM, hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199608082202.PAA01081@rah.star-gate.com> from Amancio Hasty at "Aug 8, 96 03:02:04 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Amancio Hasty wrote: > > My system is virtually useless over here when I run the test program. > > I am running FreeBSD-current as of a week or so ago. Mine too, though it does still continue to run, just can't do any forks (the program forks as many processes as it can, 176 in my case) and it appears that all lower-priority processes (such as the top I had running at the time) get zero processing time (which isn't really surprising). After a few minutes the program apparently completes and things return to normal. Oh, I also got 39 tty-level buffer overflows (from my mouse, I presume since that's the only tty device on the system). My system is a P6-200 w/96MB of memory running -current (as of about 2 weeks ago). -- Bob Willcox politics, n: bob@luke.pmr.com A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of Austin, TX principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. -- Ambrose Bierce