Re: Kernel panic: can't push onto full stack

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:15:17 +0000 (GMT)


> configured machines. After the kernel panics, the machine is still
> pingable and seems to almost establish tcp connections, but
> just hangs. All services running on the machines no longer function.

Thats what I would expect.

> What exactly does this error mean? The machines have plenty of ram and

It means something very bad happened in a situation where a lot of file
handles were being passed across sockets.

I've been pondering this one (you are the third report I've seen). It
basically implies a bug in the mark/sweep garbage collector, or a race
of some kind.

Alan

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