Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:46:47 -0500 From: "Michael Scheidell" <scheidell@secnap.net> To: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 Message-ID: <011701c18a71$602353b0$2801010a@MIKELT> References: <20011221174007.D551C38CC@overcee.netplex.com.au> <200112211751.fBLHpcr02576@scanner.secnap.net> <20011221181804.A40540@walton.maths.tcd.ie>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "David Malone" <dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie> To: "Michael Scheidell" <scheidell@secnap.net> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>; <peter@wemm.org> Sent: Friday, December 21, 2001 1:18 PM Subject: Re: userland program panics freebsd 4.3 > 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. > 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... I did this, and instead of crashing in 15 ins, its still running after 3 hours. I will rerun tests and report back. Thanks for the suggestion (now, if I cvsup RELENG_4_3 do I get the OLD param.h?) -- Michael Scheidell Secnap Network Security, LLC scheidell@secnap.net 1+(561) 368-9561 See updated IT Security News at http://www.fdma.com/ > > David. > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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