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| author | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-07-24 13:13:10 +0200 |
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| committer | Thomas Schwinge <thomas@schwinge.name> | 2010-07-24 13:13:10 +0200 |
| commit | f34b574bcd4578f079a812cf0887c2671e823e6d (patch) | |
| tree | bcedf2ca7aff28ad3dacc3c2b0f96cb8851cc7ff | |
| parent | 13d48eb82e94428919b0a5ee59512ac0ea2ea0d9 (diff) | |
unsorted/ZallocPanics -> open_issues/resource_management_problems/zalloc_panics
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | open_issues/resource_management_problems/zalloc_panics.mdwn (renamed from unsorted/ZallocPanics.mdwn) | 17 |
2 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn b/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn index ab233dbb..1723d7d3 100644 --- a/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/resource_management_problems.mdwn @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@ -[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc."]] +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2008, 2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] [[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this @@ -24,3 +25,5 @@ These issues are what Neal Walfield is working on with his new kernel # Examples * [[configure max command line length]] + + * [[zalloc_panics]] diff --git a/unsorted/ZallocPanics.mdwn b/open_issues/resource_management_problems/zalloc_panics.mdwn index 0b00d7ec..09710022 100644 --- a/unsorted/ZallocPanics.mdwn +++ b/open_issues/resource_management_problems/zalloc_panics.mdwn @@ -1,3 +1,18 @@ +[[!meta copyright="Copyright © 2005, 2007, 2008, 2010 Free Software Foundation, +Inc."]] + +[[!meta license="""[[!toggle id="license" text="GFDL 1.2+"]][[!toggleable +id="license" text="Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this +document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or +any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant +Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license +is included in the section entitled [[GNU Free Documentation +License|/fdl]]."]]"""]] + +[[!tag open_issue_gnumach open_issue_hurd]] + +Written by antrik / Olaf Buddenhagen, last updated: 12 Apr 2007. + The Hurd sometimes crashes with a kernel panic saying someting like: "Panic: zalloc failed: zone map exhausted". These panics are generally caused by some kind of kernel resource exhaustion, but there are several differnt reasons for that. @@ -39,5 +54,3 @@ I started various other experiments with creating child processes (fork bombs), * After opening/leaking lots of ports to /dev/null (32768 it seems), the NULL translator somehow becomes disfunctional, and a new instance is started While most of these Observations clearly show an exhaustion of kernel memory which is not surprising, some of the oddities seem to indicate problems that might deserve further investigation. - --- antrik (Last update: 12 Apr 2007) |