Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 09 Aug 2002 13:06:20 -0700 | From | J Sloan <> | Subject | Re: -aa 3.5GB Patch Questions |
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Just a sanity check, are you using the current (errata) red hat gcc?
Just asking since 2.96 is all I use, and the -aa kernels are completely stable here - do you have a test workload to allow me to try and duplicate your bug?
Joe
Mitch Sako wrote:
>I've been using Andrea's 2.4.18rc4aa1 patches applied to a generic >2.4.18 kernel running on Intel 32-bit machines with 4GB of memory and >usually some sort of Serversorks chipset with 1-2 CPUs of various speeds >with great success for almost 6 months now. The primary base has been a >SuSE 7.2 distro but others are now being tried, including Slackware 8.1 >and RH 7.[23]. The principal reason for this was to use the >00_3.5G-address-space-4 feature. I apply all patches in the directory >and have not seen a kernel failure yet with thousands of hours of "big >process" CPU time logged across many machines. I consider this to be a >pretty stable combination of kernel and patches for what I need. > >RH's 2.96 gcc compiles fine but blows up or slows to a crawl (not >unexpected) when big jobs are run and the machine starts paging. I've >fixed this by putting a 2.95.3 gcc on the machine. I'll leave the >editorial comments about 2.96-RH to others. > >I'm trying to write some sanitized procedures which will allow me to >pass this on to others. Non-2.96 distros (everyone except RH and >Mandrake, AFAIK) have run fine without issues, mainly because they have >a pretty stable 2.95 compiler included. > >I will assume that a gcc 2.95 retrofit is required to make the -aa >patches work on RH 7.[23]. > >What's the correct way to retrofit a 2.95.3 compiler onto an RH 7.[23] >distro? >Is it OK to just load it into /usr/local and build it? >Does it require 'make bootstrap' to be entirely santized? >Are there other GNU packages that I should be including with the gcc >retrofit? > >-ms > >- >To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in >the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > > >
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