From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Mosberger Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2003 20:25:38 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] floating-point error Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org >>>>> On Thu, 17 Apr 2003 21:21:48 +0200, Bruno Cornec said: Bruno> Hello, Bruno> We're using Oracle 9iRAC on Linux I2 for a proof of concept and are having Bruno> one issue. Bruno> Sometimes the Oracle process dies with the following error message: Bruno> Apr 17 20:24:48 rx1 kernel: oracle(7148): floating-point assist fault at ip 40000000048b4562 Bruno> The ip address is always the same. This happens on all of our Bruno> 4 nodes as it seems randomly. I do not have other debug info Bruno> as this is the only message printed. Some times for the same Bruno> process the message is printed up to 4 times. Bruno> [snip...] Bruno> Any idea on what can cause it, and how we could debug more Bruno> the context ? The message is informational. There is probably nothing wrong with the application, at least if the message occurs only rarely (at an interval less than 4 messages every 10 seconds or so). If the message occurs all the time, then there could be a performance problem with the application. You should be able to turn of the message with "prctl --fpemul=silent". --david