From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 29 21:53:17 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E27716A469 for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 21:53:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: from mail2.fluidhosting.com (mx24.fluidhosting.com [204.14.89.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C286813C45D for ; Tue, 29 May 2007 21:53:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dougb@FreeBSD.org) Received: (qmail 9781 invoked by uid 399); 29 May 2007 21:53:16 -0000 Received: from localhost (HELO ?192.168.0.5?) (dougb@dougbarton.us@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 29 May 2007 21:53:16 -0000 X-Originating-IP: 127.0.0.1 Message-ID: <465CA0C8.6020706@FreeBSD.org> Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 14:53:12 -0700 From: Doug Barton Organization: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alex Dupre References: <440b3e930705282241u44fa03a8gb0fedbb1617518df@mail.gmail.com> <465BC3A4.7030008@FreeBSD.org> <465BC507.1060902@FreeBSD.org> <465BD140.20504@FreeBSD.org> <465BD7F5.8030109@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <465BD7F5.8030109@FreeBSD.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, Ali Mashtizadeh , freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xorg port problem? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 21:53:17 -0000 Alex Dupre wrote: > Doug Barton ha scritto: >> Not disputing your answer, but I'm curious. Why would it cause >> problems on some systems but not others? I haven't done anything with >> my cflags ... > > It depends on how much RAM + Swap do you have. I know people with 1.5Gb > that have such problem and others with 2.5Gb that haven't it (if I > remember correctly the amounts). The "bug" is the un-optimized > optimization :-) There is already a patch that will be included in 4.2.1 > release, but I hope will be backported before in FreeBSD gcc. Ok, this makes sense. I was interested in the original post because I also have 2G of ram, and very little swap configured, so it looked to me like the only variable was that he had ZFS and I didn't. Doug -- This .signature sanitized for your protection