Subject: Re: easy ways to crash your NetBSD system
To: None <flipk@ncremp.ag.iastate.edu, khym@apm2-72.realtime.net>
From: John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.resort.com>
List: current-users
Date: 04/05/1996 21:03:45
>Try doing an "unlimit maxproc" (in csh) before running the forker... With
>maxproc limited to 80 (the default, apparently), I got the same results as
>you did. But "unlmit maxproc" raised the limit to 532, which made the
>forker panic my machine with a "vm_map_entry_create: out of map entries".
>This is on a P5/100 with 48M ram, although it did the same thing when I
>had 16M...
This is not unexpect given the known problem of netbsd's static allocation
of kernel buffers and the like.