Kernel instability under big-sized ICMP ping

Mario Benvenuti (mario@computerville.it)
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 18:46:04 +0200


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Hi there,

I tried to reproduce what md@linux.it (Marco d'Itri) wrote on Sun, 6 Jun
1999 21:25:13 +0200
to this list [Subject: kmalloc: Size (3149576632) too large], on my system
running 2.3.5 kernel.

The result was an indeciphrable and long list of hex number, that I enclose
here (gzipped),
hoping that someone can understand what actually happens.

The version of ping used is from iputils-ss990530_tar.

Thanks a lot.

--
Mario Benvenuti
ComputerVille
http://www.computerville.it
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