panic: negative nice count

[Ion-Mihai Tetcu]

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:57:25 +0200
Rene Ladan <r.c.ladan at student.tue.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I'm running BETA6:
> 
> FreeBSD 82-168-140-74-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl 5.3-BETA6 FreeBSD 5.3-BETA6 #0:
>   Mon Sep 27 03:04:45 CEST 2004 root at 82-168-140-74-bbxl.xdsl.tiscali.nl:
>   /usr/obj/usr/src-releng_5/sys/RENE_2004-09-05d  i386
> 
> When I did "idprio 31 -<pid>" on a process with nice 20, I got a
> "negative nice count" panic from kern_shutdown.c:553. I'm using ULE /
> witness / no PREEMPTION

Witness and preemption doesn't make any difference, AFACT. It is a long
standing bug (
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20040303131655.24317.qmail ) and it
affects only ULE. There is a PR kern/71310.



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