kern/97591: 6.1-RELEASE crashes on fork bomb

[Maxim Konovalov]

The following reply was made to PR kern/97591; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Maxim Konovalov <maxim at macomnet.ru>
To: Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>
Cc: bug-followup at freebsd.org, peter at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kern/97591: 6.1-RELEASE crashes on fork bomb
Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2006 17:56:09 +0400 (MSD)

 On Mon, 25 Sep 2006, 18:30-0000, Bruce M Simpson wrote:
 
 > The following reply was made to PR kern/97591; it has been noted by GNATS.
 >
 > From: Bruce M Simpson <bms at incunabulum.net>
 > To: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
 > Cc:
 > Subject: Re: kern/97591: 6.1-RELEASE crashes on fork bomb
 > Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 19:27:01 +0100
 >
 >  I exercised the pv_entry exhaustion yesterday on 7.0-CURRENT from the
 >  same date. (24 Sep 2006)
 
 Sure, because no patches were committed.  I suggested to do
 
 -	pv_maxchunks = pv_entry_max / _NPCP;
 +       pv_maxchunks = MAX(pv_entry_max / _NPCPV, maxproc);
 
 in sys/i386/i386/pmap.c but Peter had some different ideas.
 
 -- 
 Maxim Konovalov