Subject: Re: port-sparc/14180: random segfault on IPC with -current
To: Jared D. McNeill <jmcneill@invisible.yi.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-sparc
Date: 11/12/2001 10:56:19
On Sun, Nov 11, 2001 at 11:58:46PM -0400, Jared D. McNeill wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 12:48:45PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > >Description:
> > > 	On a sparc IPC, processes get memory corruption under moderate load
> > > 	(like a 'make -j2' kernel compile).
> > > 	This usually results in process cc1 getting a signal 11, but I've
> > > 	also seen spurious syntax error report from cpp or cc.
> > > 	Restarting the build make it go a little bit further.
> 
> I've noticed the same thing on my sparc 10. I went out and bought all new
> RAM for it, thinking that may be the problem, but it's still happening. I
> haven't tried anything other than 1.5.2 and -current on it.. but I'm
> having the same problems with cc1, cpp, etc.

Can you try 1.5.1, or a -current compiled from sources checked out
with the date tag I posted ?
I've no problems on my ss20 so I suspect it's a sun4c-only problem.
But maybe it's just timing-related.

I should be able to get a 2*30Mhz ss10 soon, I'll try it there too.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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