Date: Fri, 13 Mar 1998 03:04:08 -0800 From: David Greenman <dg@root.com> To: Reinier Bezuidenhout <rbezuide@oskar.nanoteq.co.za> Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.5 PANIC when out of mbufs Message-ID: <199803131104.DAA21385@implode.root.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 13 Mar 1998 12:31:13 %2B0200." <199803131032.MAA04804@oskar.nanoteq.co.za>
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>(m) = m_retryhdr((how), (type)); which has now been defined as 0x0 ... >MGETHDR (with M_WAIT) defined now happily returns m = 0x0 and no >one checks for that. > >It then causes the kernel to panic. > >:) would it not have been easier to call panic from withing the else >in m_retryhdr :) instead of waiting for the mbuf to be referenced :) > >Am I missing anything obvious here ??? It's a problem that has been known about for a couple of years. It's one possible effect of running out of mbuf clusters - there are others. -DG David Greenman Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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