Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_fork.c

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Jeremy
[The reference is ancient but I think it's still relevant.] On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 07:15:28PM -0800, Mike Silbersack wrote: silby 2002/02/18 19:15:28 PST Modified files: sys/kern kern_fork.c Log: A few misc forkbomb defenses: ... - Remove the printing of proc:

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_fork.c

2002-05-23 Thread Peter Dufault
I've bumped into a similar problem when running StarOffice on a system without _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING. It seems that StarOffice likes calling sched_yield() and doesn't take ENOSYS as a hint. My syslog entries showed repeat counts in the high 5-figure region. All such messages should

Re: cvs commit: src/sys/kern kern_fork.c

2002-05-23 Thread Terry Lambert
Peter Jeremy wrote: [I don't have the RT extensions enabled because there was a past thread about them being susceptable to priority inversion deadlocks - is this still true]. You are succeptible to such deadlocks no matter what. Priority inversion deadlock only occur in the spin case