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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 18:18:04 +0000
From:      David Malone <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie>
To:        Michael Scheidell <scheidell@secnap.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, peter@wemm.org
Subject:   Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3
Message-ID:  <20011221181804.A40540@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
In-Reply-To: <200112211751.fBLHpcr02576@scanner.secnap.net>; from scheidell@secnap.net on Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:51:38PM -0500
References:  <20011221174007.D551C38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200112211751.fBLHpcr02576@scanner.secnap.net>

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On Fri, Dec 21, 2001 at 12:51:38PM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote:
> > My gut reaction tells me that this is either a kernel stack overflow or out
> > of KVM.  The kernel stack overflow problem was "fixed" in 4.4-STABLE some
> > time back (change UPAGES from 2 to 3 in the kernel) so that the kernel stack
> > changes from 4.5K to 8.5K.
> 
> Ok, 'fixed', thats good, makes me want to try the 4.4 kernel, or could I
> tune 4.3 kernel to a 8.5k stack?

This one is easy - edit /usr/src/sys/i386/include/param.h and change
UPAGES from 2 to 3 (or even 5 if you like). I got Bruce to add an
errata about this...

	David.

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