panic: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed

[Kip Macy]

I've seen this when running stress2 with a large number of
incarnations. Why don't we return an error to the user?

                 -Kip

On 9/1/06, Julian Elischer <julian at elischer.org> wrote:
> Vyacheslav Vovk wrote:
>
> can you see how many threads thre are in the system?
> I think you will have to extract this information frome the zone allocator.
>
> I just realised there is no effective limit on kernel threads in the system.
> probably one could cause this with a fork bomb appoach using forks and
> thread creation.
>
> >Unread portion of the kernel message buffer:
> >panic: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
> >cpuid = 3
> >Uptime: 7d4h30m58s
> >
> >
> >
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