On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 03:58:29PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> I know, I've seen this report a million times :-)
Oh, I know you know, I mailed you a while ago and you told me to mail
the mailing list :)
> I can't reproduce it, I've even tried the fabled test case
> where you spawn thousands of dpkg-query instances and it never
> does anything wrong on my Niagara boxes.
>
> So something is different about your environment than mine.
>
> Let's see if there is some aspect of the environment that
> contributed to the problem occurring. Please reproduce
> with 2.6.23-final and then list (I know this is redundant,
> just humor me :-):
Confirming that the machine could reproduce the problem with 2.6.23.1.
(I can send over the .config if it matters.)
> 1) system type
A Sun Fire 280R, with two CPU boards, each carrying a TI UltraSparc III
(Cheetah), and 2 GB of RAM. If you need more info, just say.
(Bernd Zeimetz has previously suggested that the problem is linked to
the processor type, the USIII.)
> 2) compiler used to build kernel and is it SMP?
gcc (GCC) 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21)
I've no idea if that compiler is SMP, if you want I'll ask someone else.
> 3) glibc in use
> 4) compiler used to build running glibc
In that particular chroot, it's:
chroot-unstable% lib/libc-2.6.1.so
GNU C Library stable release version 2.6.1, by Roland McGrath et al.
[...]
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.2.1 (Debian 4.2.1-5).
Compiled on a Linux >>2.6.17-rc1<< system on 2007-09-04.
Available extensions:
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
software FPU emulation by Richard Henderson, Jakub Jelinek and
others
[...]
Outside of that chroot, it's:
% /lib/libc-2.3.6.so
GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.6, by Roland McGrath et al.
[...]
Compiled by GNU CC version 4.1.2 20061115 (prerelease) (Debian 4.1.1-21).
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.18 system on 2007-03-01.
Available extensions:
GNU libio by Per Bothner
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson
linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc
NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk
software FPU emulation by Richard Henderson, Jakub Jelinek and
others
Thread-local storage support included.
[...]
> If you have a reproducable test case, that's even better.
There doesn't appear to be a pattern, on this machine at least - I just let
the buildd run, building whatever comes up, and after a few hours it
inevitably runs into a wall.
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