From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 5 15:59:53 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (mta01-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.41]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED1937B403; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 15:59:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from james-list@ntlworld.com) Received: from eclipse.bloodflowers.org ([62.253.132.240]) by mta01-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with SMTP id <20010705225935.ZTWI351.mta01-svc.ntlworld.com@eclipse.bloodflowers.org>; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:59:35 +0100 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 23:59:36 +0100 From: James Greenhalgh To: "Hartmann, O." Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Linuxulator on SMP systems broken? Message-Id: <20010705235936.5430925d.james-list@ntlworld.com> In-Reply-To: References: <20010705215123.50d2fccc.james-list@ntlworld.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.4.66 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386--freebsd4.3) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Oh well - somewhere along the line SMP and/or linux emu has been broken certainly in the past month. I'll be downgrading my machine to a backup tomorrow, I'd recommend you do the same if they're important machines. james On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 00:40:52 +0200 (CEST) "Hartmann, O." wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2001, James Greenhalgh wrote: > > Since three hours both servers run with SMP kernel, but the Linuxulator problem > is still present. What the hell is that? Am I the only one with this specific > problems? > > Every thursday we have a course in theoretical meteorology and therefore several > small Fortran programs are written by the students, producing output by NCARG via > IDT tool. The malfunction occured today, when the students tried to show their > results - last week, before this big catastrophy, all things run well and nothing has > been changed in the Linuxulator config or in binaries. Today, only those machines > running with a single CPU are capable using IDT! All SMP machines, either with or > without SMP activated, fail in running IDT with a SIG 20. > > > :>My machine is still suffering these problems when SMP support is enabled, and > :>it should be noted that it hangs very much more quickly when using linuxemu > :>(in my case opera, but also netscape). I only had 2 system hangs when in > :>console mode, but closer to 20 with linuxemu running. These are _total_ > :>system hangs, requiring power cycle. > :> > :>james > :> > :>On Thu, 5 Jul 2001 22:03:25 +0200 (CEST) > :>"Hartmann, O." wrote: > :> > :>> Hello. > :>> > :>> Within the last week we rushed into a seriuos SMP problem with our SMP > :>servers > :>> due a bug in the FBSD 4.2-STABLE code. Since then we have also on all SMP > :>systems > :>> a problem with several Linux applications, which work perfect on UP systems > :>with the > :>> same installation and installation date (as cvsupdated today). > :>> > :>> It is very important to have NCAR graphics 4.2.1 working here and it did > :>before > :>> the 1. June. > :>> > :>> The phenomenon is, that an application called IDT (a visualization tool > :>under > :>> NCARG) works perfect under all UP systems and suddenly not under our SMP > :>machines. > :>> When applying a 'truss idt' I receive a "SIG 20" whenever I try to push a > :>button. > :>> > :>> Does anyone else have problems with the Linuxulator after the horrible SMP > :>problems? > :>> Maybe this problem is not related to the SMP problem, but it is very > :>suspicous that > :>> it occured after this problem occured due the fact we did not change any > :>kind of > :>> configuration ... > :>> > :>> -- > :>> MfG > :>> O. Hartmann > :>> > :>> ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > :>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > :>> IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > :>> ---------------------------------------------------------------- > :>> Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > :>> Becherweg 21 > :>> 55099 Mainz > :>> > :>> Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) > :>> Tel: +496131/3924144 > :>> FAX: +496131/3923532 > :>> > :>> > :>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > :>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > :> > :> > :>-- > :> > :>find great crazy-mad out-of-head experience from japan. > :> > > -- > MfG > O. Hartmann > > ohartman@klima.physik.uni-mainz.de > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > IT-Administration des Institut fuer Physik der Atmosphaere (IPA) > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Johannes Gutenberg Universitaet Mainz > Becherweg 21 > 55099 Mainz > > Tel: +496131/3924662 (Maschinenraum) > Tel: +496131/3924144 > FAX: +496131/3923532 > -- find great crazy-mad out-of-head experience from japan. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message