Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 13:47:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se> To: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> Cc: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: machine crashing, what panic: free means? Message-ID: <Pine.Sola.3.91.960812134209.5250A-100000@chicago> In-Reply-To: <199608121616.JAA25398@phaeton.artisoft.com>
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Hi, I have version 2.1. I noticed that this happens when a lot of traffic is on the ethernet card, and these packets need to be redirected to the serial port at 115200 bauds. Could this bug be related to the CPU or the board being slow, for the packets throuput. On Mon, 12 Aug 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > > > Samy Touati wrote in message ID > > > Does anybody knows what a free panic means? > > > > We didn't charge you for it. > > > > :-) > > 8-). > > Generally, it means that something was freed twice. THis is a bad thing. > > Typically, you can get this from reallocating vnodes by rolling off the > top of the freelist back to the tail. There is an off-by-1 error that > will let this happen. I think newer versions of the OS (you didn't > identify your version) had my patch rolled in (it was a kludge in the > vfs_subr.c; you can get the patch from the -current list archive on > www.freebsd.org -- or update your code). > > > Terry Lambert > terry@lambert.org > --- > Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present > or previous employers. >
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