From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Aug 18 18:30:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.inka.de (quechua.inka.de [212.227.14.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89CAA37B407 for ; Sat, 18 Aug 2001 18:30:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from daemon@mips.inka.de) Received: from kemoauc.mips.inka.de (uucp@) by mail.inka.de with local-bsmtp id 15YHPt-0007Zq-00; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 03:30:17 +0200 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by kemoauc.mips.inka.de (8.11.5/8.11.1) id f7J1KFW56149 for freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org; Sun, 19 Aug 2001 03:20:15 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from daemon) From: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) Subject: Re: alpha problems on current Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2001 01:20:13 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <9ln48d$1ml6$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <20010817081929.A2859@freebie.xs4all.nl> <20010817152742.B437@cicely20.cicely.de> <9lje5o$24ra$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> <20010818172224.A4918@cicely20.cicely.de> Originator: naddy@mips.inka.de (Christian Weisgerber) To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Bernd Walter wrote: > > > > - I'm seeing mysterious writes (kevent says NOTE_WRITE) to my > > > > executables. I suspect this is a VM bug. > > Have you found a way to isulate when it happens? No. I wrote a little program that watches /bin/* through kevent(2), but I'm uncertain how to trace this any further. The writes don't appear to be related to any particular system activity, although they possibly correlate with the amount of activity. Also, if I don't run setiathome in the background I get far fewer writes. The only strange program crash I've seen so far has been an xlogout dying with SEGV. -- Christian "naddy" Weisgerber naddy@mips.inka.de To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message