Re: Signal 11

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Rainer Mager <rmager@vgkk.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Mark Vojkovich <mvojkovich@valinux.com>
Subject: Re: Signal 11
Date: Fri, 08 Dec 2000 09:46:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <25692.976268767@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20001208022044.A6417@gruyere.muc.suse.de>
In-Reply-To: <20001208022044.A6417@gruyere.muc.suse.de>  <E144BOL-0003Eg-00@the-village.bc.nu> <NEBBJBCAFMMNIHGDLFKGMEFHCIAA.rmager@vgkk.com>

ak@suse.de said:
>  Sounds like a X Server bug. You should probably contact XFree86, not
> linux-kernel

I quote from the X devel list, which perhaps I shouldn't do but this is hardly 
NDA'd stuff:

On Mon 20 Nov 2000, mvojkovich@valinux.com said:
>   I have seen random crashes on dual P3 BX boards (Tyan) and dual Xeon
> GX boards (Intel).  XFree86 core dumps indicate that it happens in
> random places, in old as dirt software rendering code that has nothing
> 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. 

XFree86 3.9 and XFree86 4 were rock solid for a _long_ time on 2.[34]
kernels - even on my BP6¹. The random crashes started to happen when I
upgraded my distribution² - and are only seen by people using 2.4. So I
suspect that it's the combination of glibc and kernel which is triggering
it.

--
dwmw2

¹ And the BP6 still falls over less frequently than the dual P3 I use at 
work.
² RH7. Don't start.

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