New alpha 5.x bug

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed Nov 12 02:28:28 PST 2003


On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:42:19PM -0500, Jeff Roberson wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, David O'Brien wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:18:26PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> > > Hmmm.. the package builders are Miatas right?
> >
> > Yes, MX5's.
> >
> > > Are they using a PCI add-in ethernet card?
> >
> > Some are, some aren't.
> 
> I wrote some code last night to write a predictable pattern of bytes on
> one side of a pipe and read it back in on another.  I ran several sets of
> these programs over night, one doing 16byte transfers, another doing
> 16384, and another doing 100,000,000 bytes in 2xPAGE_SIZE chunks.
> 
> I ran this while doing a buildworld in a loop on an XP1000 (21264).  I was
> not able to reproduce any problems.  I'm going to run it tonight on a
> Digital Ultimate Workstation 533au2.

If we have a reproducible test I can run it between a DS10 and a AS500
as well.

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