From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <38F315A7.AF8E0949@embeddededge.com> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 08:08:07 -0400 From: Dan Malek MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Marcus Sundberg CC: Pavel Roskin , "Wohlgemuth, Jason" , "'linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org'" Subject: Re: Software Emulation Exception... References: <38EE0267.FB881499@embeddededge.com> <38F200CF.B4A07187@embeddededge.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: Marcus Sundberg wrote: > .... It has a 100% chance of crashing without the patch, and a 0% > chance of crashing with it. I agree the patch is necessary to fix a problem managing dirty pages...... > All you have to do to experience the problem is allocate memory > until the RAM gets low ....but this wasn't the test.... > .... If you are running a dynamicly linked glibc2 > app what is most likely to happen is that the (dirty) jump table > is thrown out by the broken MM code. If, if, if......Is this really what is happening? I am concerned about proving a real problem and fixing it. If you aren't, that's OK. I have other things to do. -- Dan ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/