Date: Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:31:37 -0700 From: Paul Traina <pst@jnx.com> To: dg@root.com Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: recent kernel panics in the vm system Message-ID: <199610111831.LAA00370@base.jnx.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:09:37 PDT." <199610111809.LAA29261@root.com>
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Right, I screwed the pooch with a last-microsecond change in the code. :-(
Sigh. I'm committing fixes in a few minutes.
From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
Subject: Re: recent kernel panics in the vm system
>I found at least two bugs in my recent tcp/socket changes, but those don't
>seem to be the cause of my recent crashes. I wasn't aware there was any
>unstability with the PCB hashing, I'll look there next, thanks.
>
>Paul
>
> From: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>
> Subject: Re: recent kernel panics in the vm system
> >
> > John,
> > Have you received reports of kernel instability in -current as of Oct 10
>>th?
> > I'm seeing a number of panics, and they all started in the last 2 days.
> >
> The only problem that is severe that I know of (right now -- might have
> forgotten though) is the PCB hashing thing. I would love to see a
> traceback so we can narrow things down. The VM code itself should be
> fairly stable, but a bit slow for low level benchmarks.
John is a bit confused, I think. There is nothing wrong with the PCB
hashing as far as I'm aware. The problem is with the SYN-flood drop code
dereferencing a NULL.
-DG
David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
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