Re: panic: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed

From: Peter Holm <peter_at_holm.cc> Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2006 08:00:31 +0100 · This archive was generated by hypermail 2.4.0 : Wed May 19 2021 - 11:38:53 UTC

On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 01:23:08AM -0500, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 02:19:06PM +0800, David Xu wrote:
> > On Friday 10 March 2006 13:54, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > > Panic running stress2 with libthr on up-to-date 7.0:
> > > 
> > > panic: vm_thread_new: kstack allocation failed
> > 
> > This means kernel address space was exhausted, how many threads
> > were you trying to create ?
> 
> Don't know precisely, but stress2 was creating a lot.
> 

The default max would be 10 * 256.

- Peter

> Kris
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Peter Holm