Softupdates overflows, KSTACK_PAGES and lost+found overflows

Kris Kennaway kris at FreeBSD.org
Fri Mar 18 14:11:04 PST 2005


On Fri, Mar 18, 2005 at 07:46:44PM +0000, Kris Kennaway wrote:

> Recently I decreased KSTACK_PAGES to 3 to see if I could provoke the
> bug again.  I could :) This means that KSTACK_PAGES=4 is necessary to
> provide reasonable protection against the problem.

Actually I was looking in the wrong place (NOTES); I still have it set
to 4 on this machine.  This indicates that even this is only a partial
workaround, but at least it only happened once in the last year or
more, instead of every few days.

Kris

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