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Date:      Thu, 26 Aug 2004 11:20:06 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gumbysoft.com>
To:        Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: PLEASE TEST: IPI deadlock avoidance patch
Message-ID:  <20040826111853.D37301@carver.gumbysoft.com>
In-Reply-To: <p0611041fbd53d77e3b9f@[128.113.24.47]>
References:  <20040822115345.Y94593@carver.gumbysoft.com> <20040826103652.F36995@carver.gumbysoft.com> <p0611041fbd53d77e3b9f@[128.113.24.47]>

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On Thu, 26 Aug 2004, Garance A Drosihn wrote:

> >Signal 6 is SIGABRT, which is usually intentional. You'd have to
> >check the output for a specific process that abended.  I'd also
> >have to scan the make code for any abort() calls.
>
> I have not pinned this down yet, but I have determined that it is
> not related to the USE_KQUEUE `make'.  It is only happening if I do
> several -j buildworlds in a row, and (at least so far) only if I
> also have the folding-at-home client running as a background task.

I guess I'll go run that client and beat up my testbox a bit :)

I'm suspecting the data corruption issue isn't directly caused by the IPI
fix, but rather it just unmasked an existing issue.

-- 
Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@gumbysoft.com          |  www.FreeBSD.org



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