Messages in this thread | | | From | Helge Deller <> | Subject | Re: 2.4.21 on Itanium2: floating-point assist fault at ip 400000000062ada1, isr 0000020000000008 | Date | Wed, 31 Mar 2004 22:15:52 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 31 March 2004 19:00, Denis Vlasenko wrote: > On Wednesday 31 March 2004 15:16, Ulrich Windl wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I did try to find an answer is SuSE's support database, not in SAP's > > support database, and also did search Google, but could not find an answer: > > > > We run SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 8 (SLES8) on a HP rx4640 Itanium2 > > server with 2 CPUs (family: Itanium 2, model: 1, revision: 5, archrev: 0). > > > > In syslog is do see periodic kernel messages (with no implicit priority) > > that read: > > > > dw.sapC11_DVS02(14393): floating-point assist fault at ip 400000000062ada1, > > isr 0000020000000008 > > > > ("dw.sapC11_DVS02" is a SAP R/3 work process (46D_EXT, patch 1754, for > > those who care) > > > > Can anybody explain what this message means? Is it an application problem, > > or is it a kernel problem? > >.... > > kernel says that you have them too frequently, which probably > impairs efficiency. It's a hint to programmer.
Correct. We are aware of this message and it will be fixed with a future SAP R/3 kernel patch. Since this message is only raised in the startup code of the R/3 kernel you shouldn't see any runtime performance impact and can safely ignore the message for now.
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