On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 11:11 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > Dennis Gilmore <dennis@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > On Wednesday 09 January 2008, David Woodhouse wrote: > >> On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 16:28 -0500, Tom Lane wrote: > >>> ... Has gcc started making PPC stack frames a lot > >>> larger than before? Maybe glibc has gotten more stack-hungry? I'd > >>> guess on the problem being in gettext() or related code, if it is a > >>> glibc change, but I haven't tracked it down exactly. > >> > >> For a while we used 64KiB pages on ppc64, because IBM insisted on it in > >> RHEL5 and I didn't notice we'd done the same stupid thing in Fedora. I > >> believe it was like that in FC6 but I fixed it again for F7. > >> > >> Is it possible that the kernel on the build machines is now similarly > >> afflicted? > > > The build system when refreshed in December got updates to RHEL5 so are all > > running RHEL5 kernels. they do have one extra patch for a bug in tux. > > Interesting, but would that affect the rate at which userland code > consumes stack space? It'll certainly affect the way it _allocates_ stack space. > Since posting, I've verified that it still fails at STACK_MIN_SIZE = 48K, That's still less than a single page. Did you try 64KiB or 128KiB? -- dwmw2 -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
