Re: MacOS X system panic with CGI

From: Steven M. Loranz (sloranzat_private)
Date: Fri Jun 04 1999 - 11:18:54 PDT

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    On Thu, 3 Jun 1999, Juergen Schmidt wrote:
    
    > It displays "system panic" and a stack trace with ipc_task_init.
    >
    > The problem appears when 32 or more processes are doing
    > GET-requests to a cgi script in a loop.
    >
    > I could reproduce this on two different G3-Macs with
    > 100%. It doesn't matter, if the processes run local or
    > remote (I tried it via LAN with 10 MBit). Crashes appear after
    > 30 seconds to a couple of minutes.
    >
    > I suppose this is a bug in the Mach kernel and *not*
    > limited to CGI scripts. I could find no other ways to
    > trigger it yet. So disabling CGI scripts might help for
    > some time.
    
    Just a reminder that you can check out the kernel source (and just
    about everything else in MOSXS) for yourself by going to
    http://publicsource.apple.com
    
    
    -steve
    



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