Date: Mon, 8 Dec 1997 17:53:14 -0500 (EST) From: Dayton Clark <dayton@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: -current, goliath, smp -- problems Message-ID: <199712082253.RAA26506@sci.brooklyn.cuny.edu>
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Folks,
I tired of people saying how good stable -current is ;-).
I've had a system w/4 PPro 200 on a goliath motherboard for about a year
now. It's had some hardware problems, but I believe those are fixed now.
It runs multiprocessor Solaris and NT without a hitch but what I really want
to run is FreeBSD SMP (this message is appropriate for current also). Alas,
the fates are against me. Lack of time on my part is the main reason I
haven't made more progress, but I've had enough time recently to get *some*
evidence about what's going wrong.
I will pick away at the problem, as time permits, and I hope you all have
some insights on how I might proceed, or (hope, hope) perhaps someone knows
just what the problem is.
The system:
Motherboard AMI Goliath EISA & PCI busses
Chipset 450GX
Processor 4X PPRO 200
Cache 256K
Memory 64M
Disk Adaptec 2940w 4G, 8x cdrom
Video ATI Mach 32
OS FreeBSD-current SNAP-971203 (also some Sept snap).
The problems:
There are three problems I'm having the first two are sporadic and
typcially disappear on when repeated. They also occur only with the
SMP kernel (the generic smp kernel except NCPU=4), I believe. I
suspect that the first two are related.
o Commands (e.g., ls, mv) die with error code = 0. A message is
printed on stderr, perhaps by the shell, stating that the process
died with error code 0. Repeat it and it usually works.
o When I try a large make (make world or making emacs) programs will
disappear, i.e. make all of a sudden can't find cc or rm (after many
successful uses of the command). Repeat the make and it will
continue.
o Emacs doesn't work at all and I can't do much without emacs 8-).
The emacs from the packages distribution hangs. I brought over
emacs 20.2 it dereferences a null pointer in malloc_internal(). I
compiled 19.34 in /usr/ports and it gets a segment violation in
malloc_internal() but at a different location. This happens with
both the UP and SMP kernels.
Any help would be appreciated.
thanks
dayton
Dayton Clark
CIS Department dayton@brooklyn.cuny.edu
Brooklyn College/CUNY 1-718-951-4811
Brooklyn, New York 11210 1-718-951-4842 (fax)
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