Re: open issues with the hppa port
[correcting lamont's e-mail]
LaMont: have you been seeing further "random segfault" bugs on
peri/penalosa over the past week or two? Is this something you can
monitor for us?
Rest inline..
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 12:10:28PM -0400, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 11:53 PM, dann frazier<dannf@dannf.org> wrote:
> > We have been running with UP kernels for quite some time, and they
> > haven't proven to be any more stable. Most recently I've upgraded
> > peri/penalosa to 2.6.31-rc6-based kernels since they were inclusive of
> > the various changes I was pointed to on this list (thanks John/Helge).
>
> Where exactly did you get this kernel, do you have a URL reference?
The debian kernel team does nightly snapshot builds of our source. I
took this source & built the parisc64 (UP) flavor:
http://people.debian.org/~dannf/tmp/
>
> > peri has been surprisingly stable - uptime of 2 weeks so far, and it
> > seems to be under pretty steady build load.
>
> That sounds great.
dannf@peri:~$ uptime
16:56:09 up 15 days, 17:13, 2 users, load average: 2.25, 2.39, 2.31
> > penalosa is a different story - it has been very unstable with uptimes
> > of several hours at most. The hardware/kernel packages are identical
> > to that of peri (afaict), so I'm not sure why. The failure mode
> > results in infinite panics being printed to the console - but every
> > time I've seen it I haven't had enough console history to see the
> > beginning of this crash. I am now logging the console to see if I can
> > capture that. It is of course possible that penalosa is having
> > hardware problems - but I don't know of a way to prove this
> > conclusively. We could maybe swap disks to see if the failure follows
> > the disks or the hardware (though that doesn't eliminate a disk
> > problem).
>
> The way to prove this is to put an instrumented kernel on penalosa.
>
> I think the way forward is:
> * You get me a console trace.
> * I give you an instrumented kernel/initrd.
> * Repeat.
*nod*
fyi, now that I've started logging the console, penalosa has become
strangely stable:
dannf@penalosa:~$ uptime
16:57:22 up 1 day, 20:00, 2 users, load average: 1.99, 2.46, 2.30
The first several boots on this kernel wouldn't make it more than an
hour or two.
> Are you allowed to boot a kernel/initrd that I send you?
I don't see why not, assuming these changes don't add a risk of
producing bad binaries.
> > Note that I don't monitor the build output, so I don't know if we're
> > still seeing the same level of random segfaults in userland.
> > LaMont?
>
> Cheers,
> Carlos.
--
dann frazier
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