From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Jun 24 12:52:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from earth.backplane.com (earth-nat-cw.backplane.com [208.161.114.67]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 05D5137B401; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:52:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon@earth.backplane.com) Received: (from dillon@localhost) by earth.backplane.com (8.11.3/8.11.2) id f5OJpqV79628; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:51:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dillon) Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 12:51:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Matt Dillon Message-Id: <200106241951.f5OJpqV79628@earth.backplane.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: "Ted Mittelstaedt" , , , , Subject: Re: Kernel Panic References: <004101c0fc8c$44e12280$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG : :> However, if the script DID load itself, a recursive script :> under an ordinary user ID isn't allowed to crash the :> system. : :Yes it is, unfortunately. FreeBSD doesn't like running out of swap :space. Matt Dillon has been trying to correct this in -CURRENT, but :it's not completely fixed yet. : :DES :-- :Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org The out of swap handling should be completely fixed on -current and -stable now. My tests and Paul Saab's tests come up roses now. In regards to the original authors bug report... I haven't heard what version of FreeBSD he is running. Under normal circumstances a runaway script should not be able to take the machine down. Prior to the swap handling fixes if sufficient resource limits are set or the script is run as root, then such a script could lockup the machhine. But it is also unclear to me what the author meant by "crash"... did it panic? Was there a panic message? Did it start bashing the disks and appear not to stop? What? -Matt To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message