Messages in this thread |  | | From | "Rainer Mager" <> | Subject | RE: Signal 11 | Date | Mon, 11 Dec 2000 09:58:55 +0900 |
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I just applied the said patch and will report my results. Note that I have never been able to reliably, on-demand reproduce this so give me a few days to see what happens.
--Rainer
-----Original Message----- From: Alan Cox [mailto:alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk] Sent: Friday, December 08, 2000 11:07 PM To: David Woodhouse Cc: Andi Kleen; Rainer Mager; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; Mark Vojkovich Subject: Re: Signal 11
> > wrong with it. I've only seen this under 2.3.x/2.4 SMP kernels. I > > would say that this is definitely a kernel problem.=20 > > XFree86 3.9 and XFree86 4 were rock solid for a _long_ time on 2.[34] > kernels - even on my BP6=B9. The random crashes started to happen when = > I > upgraded my distribution=B2 - and are only seen by people using 2.4. So= > I > suspect that it's the combination of glibc and kernel which is triggeri= > ng > it.
Have any of the folks seeing it checked if Ben LaHaise's fixes for the page table updating race help ?
Alan
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