On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 07:48:30PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote: > I'm seeing various segfaults especially with perl on an R4600 Indy. > R4000 I2 with identical debian packages works fine though. I have tried > various kernels (cvs head as from two days ago(natively and > crosscompiled) and 2.4.3-r4k-ip22 from rfc822.org. Interesting enough > the segfaults disappear when using "strace -o/dev/null > segfaulting_binary". I also tried to investigate the core file but gdb > dies when loading it(gdb is 5.0-3 debian package). Strace uses ptrace(2) which does enormous numbers of cache flushes. Are those segfault non-deterministic? Do the perl script you're running do alot of I/O? Ralf
