[DragonFly_Stable] panic: vfs_cache: malloc limit exceeded

Matthew Dillon dillon at apollo.backplane.com
Tue Oct 5 21:50:26 PDT 2004


:Hello.
:Yesterday I upgraded my desktop PC, which had been up for almost a month
:without a problem, to DragonFly_Stable. The build and install went fine,
:and I kept it running until it panicked in the mid night probably during
:or after daily cron job. This is a PentiumIV box running SMP kernel
:(but no HyperThreading available). The box has two rootfs'es, and I'm
:running older kernel/world now(built on Sept. 9).
:
:GNU gdb 4.18 (FreeBSD)
:Copyright 1998 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
:..

    This is the second bug report so there's obviously a memory leak in
    the vfs cache somewhere.  I am going to track it down and see if it's
    fixable without having to advance the stable tag through current work.
    On the otherhand, I think I've finally stabilized stage 7 so I may
    wind up just advancing the stable tag if I can't fix it easily
    otherwise.

						-Matt






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