Subject: Re: panic: multiple frees
To: Herb Peyerl <hpeyerl@novatel.ca>
From: Neil J. McRae <neil@demon.net>
List: current-users
Date: 08/09/1995 12:03:12
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> For the last few days I've been trying to get a -current i386
> machine running (Saturdays sources) and am encountering problems.
>
> I'm seeing "panic: multiple frees" with network traffic and it's
> quite reproducible. It happens more frequently when bombarded with
> NFS traffic but also happens quite regularly when bombarded with
> "tar cvf | rsh tar xvf - " type activity... The stack trace
> invariable has an "m_freem()" in it and somewhere further down the
> loop has epintr() or epget() in it...
>
> The machine is a generic i386/33 with an aha1542CF and a 3c509. The
> machine bombarding it has a 3c509 in it as well...
>
We saw this a while back on a NetBSD/sparc box. Turned out to be a duff
peice of ethernet, or a duff ethernet transciever, can remember which now.
Regards,
Neil
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Neil J. McRae. Demon Internet
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