From owner-freebsd-stable Sun Sep 1 17:56:10 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA62D37B400 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:56:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns.itga.com.au (ns.itga.com.au [202.53.40.210]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C28B43E42 for ; Sun, 1 Sep 2002 17:56:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (lightning.itga.com.au [192.168.71.20]) by ns.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA72350; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:56:03 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from gnb@itga.com.au) Received: from lightning.itga.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lightning.itga.com.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA24380; Mon, 2 Sep 2002 10:56:02 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <200209020056.KAA24380@lightning.itga.com.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 05/15/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Gregory Bond To: Arnvid Karstad Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Problems with FreeBSD - causing zalloc to return 0 ?! In-reply-to: Your message of Fri, 30 Aug 2002 09:50:59 +0200. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 02 Sep 2002 10:56:02 +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > options INVARIANTS > options INVARIANT_SUPPORT I've been bitten badly by INVARIANTS and kernel modules, in particular the zone allocator, when the module and the kernel are built with differing INVARIANTS flags. That was in the days before modules were built as part of the kernel build, so it was much easier to get out of sync then than it is now, but you might check that all your modules have the same timestamp as the kernel! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message