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Date:      Fri, 28 Nov 2003 09:48:22 +0200
From:      Byron Schlemmer <byrons@telkomsa.net>
To:        FreeBSD User Questions List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Mozilla compilation and P4 problems?
Message-ID:  <1070005701.607.39.camel@nemesis.home>
In-Reply-To: <1070003980.607.26.camel@nemesis.home>
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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


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	Byron

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