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On Feb 18, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Wesley Shields wrote:
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>
> I tried this using /tmp/ as argv[1] and it didn't crash a 6.2  
> machine or
> a -current from a few weeks ago.  Maybe the number of files has to be
> increased?  I bumped it up to 100000 and tried on a 6.2 machine, but I
> ran out of inodes before I could induce a crash.  :)
>
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

I believe the panic doesn't occur until boot. Did you reboot the box  
after writing the files to /tmp?

Peter

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