Hi,
On 07/09/2009, at 8:59 PM, Ivan Radovanovic wrote:
...
After running this program I got kernel panic with message
"get_pv_entry: increase vm.pmap.shpgperproc"
IMHO it is not very good idea to bring entire system down if one
process misbehaves in this way, it is maybe much better to kill
offending process and to send this message to system log. I am not
sure whether the panic is actually caused by process forking forever
or when the system tries to create new process when maxproc limit is
already reached (since system is only printing warning message that
maxproc limit is reached and it only panics when I try to start new
process (like ps)).
A quick observation: This is not "one process misbehaving", it is a
large number of processes misbehaving. From an administrative point
of view, I think the response is "call setrlimit(RLIMIT_NPROC, ...)",
otherwise the expected behaviour is for your machine to stop making
forward progress.
Having said that, I agree that panics are bad and it would be nice if
fork() returned EAGAIN, again and again and again. Or perhaps the
machine should just panic ...
Regards,
Jan.
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