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Date:      Sun, 4 Jul 1999 17:04:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Tom <tom@uniserve.com>
To:        "G.P." <G.P@chatcity.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG, G P <pruess@yamuna.dalai-nor.de>
Subject:   Re: double panic
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9907041702340.8930-100000@shell.uniserve.ca>
In-Reply-To: <199907042303.BAA16780@yamuna.dalai-nor.de>

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On Mon, 5 Jul 1999, G.P. wrote:

> already  did ...). I installed 19990630-SNAP (3.2) and 3.[12]-RELEASE.
> All systems behave the same, but the following lines are tested only
> on
> 3.2-RELEASE:
> 
> I used /usr/src/sys/i386/conf/GENERIC, copied it to CUSTOM, increased
> maxusers to 512, compiled and installed the kernel. After boot, I

  maxusers > 128 can be troublesome.  Lower it to 128.

> started the following code as a simple user:

  "simple user"?  What is that?  "root"?

> 
> #include <unistd.h>
> #include <sys/types.h>
> 
> int main(int argc, char *argv[])
> {
> pid_t p;
> 
> while ((p=fork())>0);
> if (p==0) pause();
> return(0);
> }

  That just forks over and over again.

> The systems panics (double fault). I am not able to debug the core:
> kernel symbol `gd_curpcb' not found.
> No stack.

  You probably can't debug the core, because maxusers is so large.

Tom



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