From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 16 15:31:21 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CFCB316A4CF for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:31:21 -0800 (PST) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1314943D48 for ; Tue, 16 Mar 2004 15:31:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from lanczos.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 16 Mar 2004 23:31:20 +0000 (GMT) Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:31:19 +0000 From: David Malone To: Sven Willenberger Message-ID: <20040316233119.GA97616@lanczos.maths.tcd.ie> References: <1079446098.23554.49.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <20040316152013.GA82071@walton.maths.tcd.ie> <1079452815.23554.69.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> <1079468317.23554.98.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1079468317.23554.98.camel@lanshark.dmv.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: dwmalone@maths.tcd.ie cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: kmem_map too small, revisited X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 23:31:21 -0000 On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 03:18:37PM -0500, Sven Willenberger wrote: > What exactly is "cred" and how would I go about finding out a) if that > first set of numbers is completely out of line and b) what is causing it > to go so high if it is in fact out of whack. cred is for the credentials of an object (who created it, so the kernel knows what it is permitted to do). A leak of cred objects related to tcp connections was fixed on the 19th of Feb in -current and was merged before the release of 5.2. Is the code you are running recent enough to have this fix? David.