[10720] in bugtraq
Re: MacOS X system panic with CGI
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Loranz)
Fri Jun 4 14:27:55 1999
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Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1999 13:18:54 -0500
Reply-To: "Steven M. Loranz" <sloranz@KING.NET>
From: "Steven M. Loranz" <sloranz@KING.NET>
X-To: Juergen Schmidt <ju@CT.HEISE.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
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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
