Re: 2.5.44-mm2 compile error using gcc 3.2 (gcc 2.96 works fine).

[Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>]

Steven Cole wrote:
> 
> ..
> binutils version is 2.12.90.0.15 for Mandrake 9.0.

Thanks.
 
> BTW, I did a make mrproper on the gcc 3.2 box, retrieved the .config,
> recompiled, and got the very same "section type conflict" error as
> before.
> 
> After running the gcc 2.96 2.5.44-mm2 for a while longer, I started up
> dbench and ran some an increasing client load up to 24 clients.  I
> started a new Konsole in KDE and the system hung, not even responding to
> pings. That failure was repeatable once, but after those two hangs which
> required a hard reset, the system was able to run dbench 32 and launch
> new Konsoles without hanging.  Non-deterministic behavior is so much
> fun.

You're on SMP, yes?  Please test with Hugh's "[PATCH] mm mremap freeze"
patch applied.

But it should have responded to pings even if deadlocked there.

Are you using "nmi_watchdog=1"?
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