On Tue, Jul 24, 2001 at 05:24:42AM +0200, Ralf Baechle wrote: > 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? No extensive I/O and perfectly deterministic. Another interesting fact is, that some of these scripts fail when executed from a shells script but work perfectly well when exactly the same call is typed into a shell. -- Guido
