Date: Sun, 11 Jun 2000 22:50:06 -0600 (MDT) From: Alex Rousskov <rousskov@ircache.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: corrupted poll(2) results? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10006112247560.17729-100000@pail.ircache.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006101707580.5059-100000@besplex.bde.org>
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On Sat, 10 Jun 2000, Bruce Evans wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jun 2000, Alex Rousskov wrote: > > > Can anybody offer any insight? Is there anything that can make poll fail when > > more than 4K FDs are in use? > > There is a possibly-related kernel bug in FreeBSD-3.3. It sometimes > corrupts kernel fd tables and causes the whole kernel to fail. It is > sometimes activated by allocating lots of fd's and forking and exiting > in a child process. See PRi 16568. Upgrade to FreeBSD-stable (3.x > after 3.4-release) yesterday. Bruce, Thanks a lot for the tip! Applying the patch from PR 16568 fixed the bug. Will sync with the stable branch... Alex. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-net" in the body of the message
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