From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from digeo-nav01.digeo.com (digeo-nav01.digeo.com [192.168.1.233]) by packet.digeo.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id QAA27141 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:21:12 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3DB48BE7.A044FDE0@digeo.com> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:21:11 -0700 From: Andrew Morton MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: 2.5.44-mm2 compile error using gcc 3.2 (gcc 2.96 works fine). References: <3DB46C01.633299F9@digeo.com> <1035241430.9472.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Steven Cole Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: Steven Cole wrote: > > .. > binutils version is 2.12.90.0.15 for Mandrake 9.0. Thanks. > BTW, I did a make mrproper on the gcc 3.2 box, retrieved the .config, > recompiled, and got the very same "section type conflict" error as > before. > > After running the gcc 2.96 2.5.44-mm2 for a while longer, I started up > dbench and ran some an increasing client load up to 24 clients. I > started a new Konsole in KDE and the system hung, not even responding to > pings. That failure was repeatable once, but after those two hangs which > required a hard reset, the system was able to run dbench 32 and launch > new Konsoles without hanging. Non-deterministic behavior is so much > fun. You're on SMP, yes? Please test with Hugh's "[PATCH] mm mremap freeze" patch applied. But it should have responded to pings even if deadlocked there. Are you using "nmi_watchdog=1"? -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/