Matthew Dillon wrote:
> Ah ha! I think I'm on to something here. It looks like sysctl is being
> asked to report the buffer size but then the second call which fills the
> buffer is returning ENOMEM, meaning that the supplied buffer is not
> large enough, meaning that sysctl is not calculating the correct buffer
> size.
>
> I think what is going on is that the sysctl code in kern_descrip.c is
> not counting threaded processes (which share their descriptor tables)
> properly.
>
> Since your system has a lot of threaded processes, and my system doesn't,
> you are hitting the bug and I am not.
>
> Please try the enclosed patch. I have committed this to HEAD as well
> and will slip the stable tag on it once I get confirmation that it
> fixes the problem.
>
> -Matt
> Matthew Dillon
> <dillon@backplane.com>
>
>Index: kern_descrip.c
>===================================================================
>RCS file: /cvs/src/sys/kern/kern_descrip.c,v
>retrieving revision 1.38
>diff -u -r1.38 kern_descrip.c
>--- kern_descrip.c 14 Jan 2005 19:28:10 -0000 1.38
>+++ kern_descrip.c 2 Feb 2005 20:33:47 -0000
>
>
[snip]
Looks like this did the trick Matt, I think it safely can be slipped to
Stable.
- Erik