From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 02:28:28 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA5B516A4CE; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:28:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5961B43FA3; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 02:28:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hACASLfO073579; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:28:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hACASL0P068734; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:28:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hACASLwP068733; Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:28:21 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 11:28:21 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Jeff Roberson Message-ID: <20031112102821.GA68710@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20031110103319.GA71114@dragon.nuxi.com> <20031111193440.M10222-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031111193440.M10222-100000@mail.chesapeake.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: ticso@cicely.de cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: New alpha 5.x bug X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2003 10:28:28 -0000 On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:42:19PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, David O'Brien wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:18:26PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote: > > > Hmmm.. the package builders are Miatas right? > > > > Yes, MX5's. > > > > > Are they using a PCI add-in ethernet card? > > > > Some are, some aren't. > > I wrote some code last night to write a predictable pattern of bytes on > one side of a pipe and read it back in on another. I ran several sets of > these programs over night, one doing 16byte transfers, another doing > 16384, and another doing 100,000,000 bytes in 2xPAGE_SIZE chunks. > > I ran this while doing a buildworld in a loop on an XP1000 (21264). I was > not able to reproduce any problems. I'm going to run it tonight on a > Digital Ultimate Workstation 533au2. If we have a reproducible test I can run it between a DS10 and a AS500 as well. -- | / o / /_ _ |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte wilko@FreeBSD.org