From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 09:15:16 PDT
Ladislav, I am glad to here thins still work well for you on the 64-bit systems. You are the first to report problems isolated to only simple_pthreads and pipe (on any platform) that could not be fixed by raising the timeout. -Paul Ladislav Subr wrote: >Dear Paul, > >'make check' works fine on my dual Opterons (Beta4 was also successfull). I'll >use it on my cluster and let you know how it behaves on longer time-scale >(unlike others, I've had quite positive experience with Beta4). > >I've tested current version also on 32-bit Athlon (vanilla kernel 2.6.13.3) >and Pentium III (several vanilla kernels 2.6.12.x and 2.6.13.x), both on SUSE >9.0 distro. Two of the standard tests always failed (simple_pthread.ct and >pipe.ct), both with restart/timeout message. I've tested also Beta4 and Beta2 >on the same systems with identical results. Motivated by some of your e-mail >a few months ago, I've also tried to increase $test_timeout to 300 (on PIII), >but it haven't changed the results. What is the others' experience on 32-bit >processors? > >Best regards > > Ladislav > > > > >>A new BLCR beta (0.4.1_b5) is now available at: >> http://mantis.lbl.gov/blcr-dist/ >> >>This fixes (at least on my test system) the kernel crashes observed with >>AMD64 and EM64T systems. Therefore I'd appreciate hearing both positive >>and negative reports from those who have tried previous betas on x86_64 >>systems. >> >>Note that with this release, the blrc kernel-side functionallity has >>split into three kernel modules: >> blcr >> blcr_vmadump >> blcr_imports >>versus two previously: >> blcr >> vmadump_blcr >>Any scripts you may have to (un)load kernel modules may need updating. >> >>-Paul >> >>