From owner-freebsd-bugs Tue May 8 19: 1:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from mail.viasoft.com.cn (unknown [61.153.1.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3B0D37B422; Tue, 8 May 2001 19:01:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davidx@viasoft.com.cn) Received: from xyf ([192.168.1.54]) by mail.viasoft.com.cn (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id KAA01962; Wed, 9 May 2001 10:00:14 +0800 Message-ID: <012301c0d82c$41a3fa40$3601a8c0@xyf> From: "David Xu" To: "Greg Lehey" , "George Reid" Cc: References: <00f901c0d050$96db7620$cc01a8c0@xyf> <20010429122750.F52871@wantadilla.lemis.com> Subject: Re: kern/26938: 4.3-stable is a broken kernel Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 10:03:21 +0800 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have found that if I use GENERIC kernel config, I can not trigger this bug, my machine has 64M RAM, default maxusers value in GENERIC kernel config file is 32, this is fine, change it to 128 and recompile/install kernel, I can use fork bomb to crash kernel. so this bug is RAM size and maxusers related. Regards, David Xu ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Lehey To: George Reid Cc: David Xu ; Sent: Sunday, April 29, 2001 10:57 AM Subject: Re: kern/26938: 4.3-stable is a broken kernel > On Sunday, 29 April 2001 at 3:16:44 +0100, George Reid wrote: >[snip] > That doesn't make it correct to close the PR. David is pointing to a > regression here: he says that the system can no longer recover from a > resource problem where it previously did. That's serious enough to > take another look at. > > I did take another look. I couldn't reproduce the problem. I've been > running the test program for 5 minutes now, and I've collected about > 3,200 zombies. Further forks fail because the proc table is full. > There! I've stopped it with ^C. > > Greg > -- > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message