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Date:      Tue, 8 May 2001 10:40:43 +0800
From:      David Xu <davidx@viasoft.com.cn>
To:        Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
Cc:        greid@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re[2]: kern/26938: 4.3-stable is a broken kernel
Message-ID:  <736972826.20010508104043@viasoft.com.cn>
In-Reply-To: <200105021548.LAA93708@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>
References:  <200104290125.f3T1PH393853@freefall.freebsd.org> <200105021548.LAA93708@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu>

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Hello Garrett,

Wednesday, May 02, 2001, 11:48:53 PM, you wrote:

GW> <<On Sat, 28 Apr 2001 18:25:17 -0700 (PDT), <greid@FreeBSD.ORG> said:

>> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed

>> You can also probably cause a FreeBSD machine to crash by striking
>> it repeatedly with a heavy object.

>> I suggest you learn about limiting the resources allowed per-user; see
>> 'ulimit'.

GW> This is an inappropriate response.  Any kernel panic indicates a bug
GW> (although perhaps not one that is easily fixed).

GW> -GAWollman

Hi,

  I have 64M RAM, I found if I use GENERIC config(maxusers is 32),
  thing's fine. but if I change maxusers to 128, the bug can be trigged
  by a fork bomb reported in PR. the the problem is related to RAM
  size and maxuser parameters.

-- 
Best regards,
David                            mailto:davidx@viasoft.com.cn



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