From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Nov 27 23:51:25 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D67B616A4CE for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:51:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from ctb-mesg4.saix.net (ctb-mesg4.saix.net [196.25.240.76]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A9B3F43FDD for ; Thu, 27 Nov 2003 23:51:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from byrons@telkomsa.net) Received: from [192.168.0.3] (rrba-184-228.telkomadsl.co.za [165.165.184.228]) by ctb-mesg4.saix.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 99850AF61 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:51:22 +0200 (SAST) From: Byron Schlemmer To: FreeBSD User Questions List In-Reply-To: <1070003980.607.26.camel@nemesis.home> References: <1070000317.607.8.camel@nemesis.home> <1070000771.435.18.camel@shumai.marcuscom.com> <1070001782.607.13.camel@nemesis.home> <1070003980.607.26.camel@nemesis.home> Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="=-14ieoWGMW2A4NZp1oGbB" Message-Id: <1070005701.607.39.camel@nemesis.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.4 Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:48:22 +0200 Subject: Re: Mozilla compilation and P4 problems? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 07:51:25 -0000 --=-14ieoWGMW2A4NZp1oGbB Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, 2003-11-28 at 09:19, Byron Schlemmer wrote: > Hmm, I'm beginning to think that this might me a hyper threading issue. > I am running an SMP kernel with machdep.cpu_idle_hlt set to 1. Looking > at previous posts HTT maybe because of : >=20 > From: Terry Lambert (tlambert2@mindspring.com) > Subject: Re: Confused about HyperThreading and Performance=20 > Date: 2003-11-13 04:37:45 PST >=20 > "The reason you are seeing a performance drop is contention for > shared resources that the scheduler doesn't know are shared. >=20 > SPECmark and similar benchmarks tend to get worse numbers on > every OS when SMT is enabled, due to contention." >=20 > I'll try disabling hyper threading if it fails to compile again. Well doesn't seem to be HTT. I booted a 5.1-RELEASE stock kernel and it died again. What is worrying me is the randomness of the failures. Hardware? Odd that world and kernel built fine ... gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/uriloader/exthandler' . . . /usr/bin/perl5 -I../../config ../../config/build-list.pl ../../dist/include/exthandler/.headerlist nsCExternalHandlerService.h nsIExternalProtocolService.h nsIExternalHelperAppService.h gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/uriloader/exthandler' gmake[3]: Entering directory `/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/uriloader/prefetch' Creating .deps gmake[3]: *** [../../dist/include/prefetch] Segmentation fault (core dumped) gmake[3]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/uriloader/prefetch' gmake[2]: *** [export] Error 2 gmake[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla/uriloader' gmake[1]: *** [tier_9] Error 2 gmake[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/ports/www/mozilla/work/mozilla' gmake: *** [default] Error 2 *** Error code 2 --=20 Byron --=-14ieoWGMW2A4NZp1oGbB Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQA/xv3FN4F35/M/8HYRAm40AJ466Rhb/3eH3Wvrl5MndquCfkCjsgCfeDGG SuCo9y2SitVW2+1T0rpmdkQ= =n0Cc -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-14ieoWGMW2A4NZp1oGbB--