> Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 09:10:14AM -0500, Michael Scheidell wrote: > > > I doubt hardware related > > > I can get it to do it on two seperate boxes. > > > > OK, then you need to get more details as explained. > > My gut reaction tells me that this is either a kernel stack overflow or out > of KVM. The kernel stack overflow problem was "fixed" in 4.4-STABLE some > time back (change UPAGES from 2 to 3 in the kernel) so that the kernel stack > changes from 4.5K to 8.5K.
Ok, 'fixed', thats good, makes me want to try the 4.4 kernel, or could I tune 4.3 kernel to a 8.5k stack? > > The other possibility is that he's configured the kernel so big (maxusers > too high etc) and he's running out of KVM. No tuning information was > supplied (kernel configs, any sysctl/tunable changes etc). maxusers 128, guess I could fiddle with vm,kernfiles, etc, but that was easyest way, the 'one' processes (user) can spawn 32*20 individual processes, each one open several files (yes, I uses ulimits on it) limits -C nessusd Resource limits for class nessusd: cputime infinity secs filesize 131072 kb datasize-cur 65536 kb stacksize-cur 32768 kb coredumpsize-cur 0 kb memoryuse-cur 65536 kb memorylocked-cur 65536 kb maxprocesses 64 openfiles 256 sbsize infinity bytes nothing twiddled in sysctl, but in order to get apache to run, did: options PMAP_SHPGPERPROC=300 (sorry, If I didn't post it here, did both (maxusers and PMAP_) on comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc group already) > > I'd be interested to know what this says: > # gdb -k /kernel /dev/mem > (kgdb) print ((struct vm_map *)kernel_map)->size print ((struct vm_map *)kernel_map)->size $1 = 247824384 -- Michael Scheidell Secnap Network Security, LLC [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1+(561) 368-9561 See updated IT Security News at http://www.fdma.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message