panic: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed

[Julian Elischer]

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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