Bug#82600: zalloc panic

2001-01-28 Thread Roland McGrath
Oh, well, I just now actually looked at your script and realized that you are running a fork bomb. Which is to say, the essence of that program is the same as "while (fork () == 0) ;". Such a program always ends in a pathological resource shortage. Unix has things like per-owner (uid) resource

Bug#82600: zalloc panic

2001-01-28 Thread Roland McGrath
That location is inside the allocator, so just from the PC we don't know what kind of thing is being allocated. We need to see backtrace from the panic. If ddb works these days, you can use that and then put the PC values through addr2line. I just checked in a simple change to zalloc.c to mak

Bug#82600: zalloc panic

2001-01-28 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
Hi, we reproduced this by a simple self invoking script # cat > /tmp/foo #! /bin/sh sh /tmp/foo ^D # sh /tmp/foo panic: zalloc4 (we changed the panic messages in kern/zalloc.c, zalloc4 is in line 486 (zget_space returns 0)). Kernel Breakpoint trap, eip 0x10ccc8 Stopped at 0x10ccc7: int $3 tr

Re: Port to PowerPC

2001-01-28 Thread Peter Bruin
>Hallo, > >I have a question... > >I read some people want to run the Hurd on typical apple hardware as PPC >and the like, so I took a look at Apples Darwin resources and I'm trying >to get at least the partitionimages from www.darwinfo.org running. > >First I tried to load the Kernelimage partiti