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From: "David E. Weekly" <dweekly@legato.com>
To: "ML-linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:06:43 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <016a01c15831$ef51c5c0$5c044589@legato.com> (raw)

Hey all,

I was trying to speed up kernel compiles experimentally by moving the source
tree into tmpfs and compiling there. It seemed to work okay and crunched
through the dep phase and most of the main build phase just fine, but then
it hit a file, got an internal segfault, and stopped. I tried again -- this
time make itself segfaulted. Three more times of make segfaulting -- a
strace on make didn't reveal what was failing. Then strace started
segfaulting. Eventually "ls" segfaulted and the machine needed to be
manually rebooted. Ouch!

I ran the full memtest86 suite on the machine, and it passed with flying
colors. So the memory proper is okay.

I come to one of two conclusions: this is a wierd problem with my north
bridge, or there's something funky going on with tmpfs.

Is tmpfs stable?

Yours,
 -david



             reply	other threads:[~2001-10-19  0:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-10-19  0:06 David E. Weekly [this message]
2001-10-19  0:22 ` Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch Davide Libenzi
2001-10-19  1:26   ` safemode
2001-10-19  5:12     ` Daniel T. Chen
2001-10-19  8:28 ` Christoph Rohland
2001-10-20 15:17   ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-21  8:25     ` Christoph Rohland
2001-10-21 10:07       ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-20 22:35         ` wild pointer!!!!! Kalyan
2001-10-21 12:21           ` Paul Mackerras
2001-10-21 12:15         ` Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch safemode
     [not found]         ` <E15vHVx-0001Nc-00@ii.uib.no>
2001-10-21 12:34           ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-21 12:53             ` safemode
     [not found]             ` <E15vI6n-0001oC-00@ii.uib.no>
2001-10-21 13:10               ` bk regression fails on tmpfs /tmp, was: " Jan-Frode Myklebust
2001-10-21 13:36                 ` safemode
2001-10-21 16:35       ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-21 17:50         ` Linus Torvalds
2001-10-21 20:15           ` Daniel Phillips
2001-10-22 17:03           ` bill davidsen
2001-10-22 17:12             ` Larry McVoy
2001-10-22 17:29               ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-23  5:25               ` Keith Owens
2001-10-22  9:44         ` Christoph Rohland
2001-10-22 10:01           ` Alexander Viro
2001-10-22 13:29             ` Wayne Scott
2001-10-22 17:31               ` bill davidsen
2001-10-30 17:29             ` Theodore Tso

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