Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2002 14:01:31 -0500 From: stan <stanb@awod.com> To: Danny Pansters <danny@ricin.com> Cc: Free BSD Questions list <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Kernel Panic on 4.5 STABLE Message-ID: <20020209190131.GA4280@teddy.fas.com> In-Reply-To: <20020209184859.30E4924D28@mail.ricin.net> References: <20020209160959.GA1010@teddy.fas.com> <20020209182255.2191C24D28@mail.ricin.net> <20020209184456.GA4026@teddy.fas.com> <20020209184859.30E4924D28@mail.ricin.net>
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On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:49:20PM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: > On Saturday 09 February 2002 19:44, you wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 09, 2002 at 07:23:16PM +0100, Danny Pansters wrote: > > > Set MAXUSERS to 0 > > > > OK, I'll try that as soon as it finsihes fsck'ing 40G :-( again :-( > > > > What's the working theory here? > > Well, the option has changed somewhere between 4.4 and 4.5 (it's > mentioned in UPDATING) and setting it to 0 is the new default (you do > compile a new GENERIC after building world?) which means that the > kernel will dynamically control the max nr of processes. As 64 isn't > very high this might have caused the panics you're seeing. > OK, I see this theroy. I'm runing periodic right now, using the new kernel. This machine was installed a month or so agao, so it was probably installed at 4.4, an has been cvsup'd several times since. Uh, no, I had not thought about recompiling GENEIRC :-( So the one that works is whatever was put in place by the first isntall. ARGH! It just paniced again. Exact same place, exact same process, exact same memort pointers. -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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