> >   also, you don't even hint at that you were doing when this happened --
> >   if you've got a program that consistently does it, SEND IT or at least
> >   hint at what it was doing.
> 
> Well, everytime I run main() { while(malloc(100000)) fork(); } it dies
> almost right away (say after 2 seconds). I realize this puts the machine
> to some extreme situations,but with normal usage we'd get 1-2 panics
> a day.

that function will quickly run you out of VM, and hang you.  this is
a known problem, whose solution will be addressed after 4.4BSD-Lite
is dropped into our laps.




cgd

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