Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Fri, 31 May 1996 15:01:41 +1000 (EST)
From:      "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au>
To:        Ade Barkah <mbarkah@hemi.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: panic: rtfree
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.91.960531145856.7707A-100000@lynx.its.unimelb.edu.au>
In-Reply-To: <199605292255.QAA04634@hemi.com>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help


On Wed, 29 May 1996, Ade Barkah wrote:

> Well, one of our machines hit a 'panic:rtfree' a few minutes ago. 
> Unfortunately kern.dumpdev was set to "disabled" (argh). The machine 
> is running 2.1-R. I glanced at rtfree() in /usr/src/sys/net/route.c,
> but of course not having a stack trace (plus my lack of knowledge)
> didn't get me anywhere.
> 
> A few minutes prior to the crash, the following was also logged:
> 
> /kernel: arpresolve: can't allocate llinfo
> 
> (repeated various times.) The kernel has NMBCLUSTERS at 2048,
> if that matters (which is ironically smaller than the default,
> since we have maxusers=128.) Sorry I don't have much more in-
> formation. =-(
> 
> Thanks in advance for any hint which could shed some light
> of what actually happened.

I had this happen repeatedly on a 2.0.5-R box when removing routes which 
are not in the routing table.

Try 

while true
do
  route delete default
  sleep 15
done

and it will probably crash the system as described above within an hour.





Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?Pine.BSI.3.91.960531145856.7707A-100000>