New alpha 5.x bug

Bernd Walter ticso at cicely12.cicely.de
Tue Nov 4 04:48:37 PST 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:17:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:39:55AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On a whim, I updated one of the alpha package machines to -current.
> > It lasted a few hours under load before going into an infinite loop
> > displaying the following on the console:
> > 
> > prologue botch: displacement 32
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > prologue botch: displacement 32
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > prologue botch: displacement 32
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> This is repeatable..it starts after a few minutes under load.

If I understood this correct the cause can be almost everything :(
I can't speak for this problem yet, because my test systems are a bit
older, but speaking for the pipe corruption:
I did a lots of bzip1, tar, scp, nfs(client) without noticing any
sign of problem.
What is so special with the port cluster?
I have no clue about it's design.

-- 
B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
ticso at bwct.de                                  info at bwct.de



More information about the freebsd-alpha mailing list