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

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Sun, 28 Feb 1999 17:20:09 +0000 (GMT)

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> > What exactly does this error mean? The machines have plenty of ram and
> > never use the swap space due to the large amount of ram.
>
> The kernel has a fixed size stack (8k) regardless of how much physical
> memory you have. Each process has its own kernel mode stack. Interrupt

Bzzt. Wrong 8)

This message is a different stack, its the GC stack for the af_unix
garbage collector. So this is a very specific actual bug not a stack overflow
in the normal sense

Alan

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