Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored

2006-03-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/8/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you set pidmax, then the system will turn off jumppid, as you can't > jump past the maximum. I removed the pidmax setting and the WARNING is gone : Executing last command: boot -r Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED],1/[EMAIL

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored

2006-03-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/8/06, James Carlson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dennis Clarke writes: > > I am not to sure what to make of the WARNING message : > > > > WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored > > http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/common/conf/param.c#675 > > > but I can only assum

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored

2006-03-08 Thread James Carlson
Dennis Clarke writes: > I am not to sure what to make of the WARNING message : > > WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored http://cvs.opensolaris.org/source/xref/on/usr/src/uts/common/conf/param.c#675 > but I can only assume that setting pidmax = 32767 was a bad thing. It's mostly harml

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored

2006-03-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
On 3/8/06, Cyril Plisko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > As a comparison I tried the same thing on an unmodified Red Hat > > Enterprise Linux 4 AS 64-bit server. It simply packed up and went > > away. Totally. Gone in less than one second and nothing worked > > anymore. Not the mouse and not

Re: [osol-discuss] WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored

2006-03-08 Thread Cyril Plisko
> > As a comparison I tried the same thing on an unmodified Red Hat > Enterprise Linux 4 AS 64-bit server. It simply packed up and went > away. Totally. Gone in less than one second and nothing worked > anymore. Not the mouse and not even the NumLock light on the > keyboard. I don't like playn

[osol-discuss] WARNING: jump_pid < 0 or >= pidmax; ignored

2006-03-08 Thread Dennis Clarke
[ This is a long long message but worth reading .. I hope ] James Dickens posted an interesting topic in his blog : http://uadmin.blogspot.com/2006/03/defusing-bombs.html Thus I just had to run the famous bash fork bomb on my new build 35 based server. Needless to say the machine became rea