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Subject: Re: panic: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
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Kip Macy wrote:

> I've seen this when running stress2 with a large number of
> incarnations. Why don't we return an error to the user?


programmer ENOTIME

patch welcome!

>
>                 -Kip
>
> On 9/1/06, Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> wrote:
>
>> Vyacheslav Vovk wrote:
>>
>> can you see how many threads thre are in the system?
>> I think you will have to extract this information frome the zone 
>> allocator.
>>
>> I just realised there is no effective limit on kernel threads in the 
>> system.
>> probably one could cause this with a fork bomb appoach using forks and
>> thread creation.
>>
>> >Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:
>> >panic: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
>> >cpuid = 3
>> >Uptime: 7d4h30m58s
>> >
>> >
>> >
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