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Date:      Fri, 11 Oct 1996 11:09:37 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Paul Traina <pst@jnx.com>
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.org, current@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: recent kernel panics in the vm system 
Message-ID:  <199610111809.LAA29261@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 11 Oct 1996 10:55:50 PDT." <199610111755.KAA01433@base.jnx.com> 

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>I found at least two bugs in my recent tcp/socket changes, but those don't
>seem to be the cause of my recent crashes.  I wasn't aware there was any
>unstability with the PCB hashing, I'll look there next, thanks.
>
>Paul
>
>  From: John Dyson <dyson@dyson.iquest.net>
>  Subject: Re: recent kernel panics in the vm system
>  > 
>  > John,
>  > Have you received reports of kernel instability in -current as of Oct 10th?
>  > I'm seeing a number of panics, and they all started in the last 2 days.
>  > 
>  The only problem that is severe that I know of (right now -- might have
>  forgotten though) is the PCB hashing thing.  I would love to see a
>  traceback so we can narrow things down.  The VM code itself should be
>  fairly stable, but a bit slow for low level benchmarks.

   John is a bit confused, I think. There is nothing wrong with the PCB
hashing as far as I'm aware. The problem is with the SYN-flood drop code
dereferencing a NULL.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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