Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 17:02:19 -0500 (EST) From: Steven Ames <steve@virtual-voodoo.com> To: andyf@speednet.com.au, mike@smith.net.au Cc: chris@calldei.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: aio_read kills machine Message-ID: <199910112202.RAA04761@virtual-voodoo.com> In-Reply-To: <199910112120.OAA02032@dingo.cdrom.com>
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> > > > Running ``nmap -sP 172.22.0.0/16'' as a normal user will cause > > > > a panic on a recent 3.3-STABLE system :( > > > > > > Could you be any less specific about the panic? Any sort of detail > > > is just going to make us want to fix it. > > > > Here most of the message I posted to -stable: > > Oh, that one. You need to increase maxusers or NMBCLUSTERS. This is > the subject of ongoing work in -current that ought to make it back to > -stable eventually. Could someone define what NMBCLUSTERS is and what it is used for? I've seen a lot of cases where increasing it (beyond the default 1024?) has helped systems be more stable, but what is it? If someone does bother to respond to this with a good definition then maybe that definition could make it into LINT? -Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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