Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 16:41:47 +0800 From: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> To: John Hay <jhay@mikom.csir.co.za> Cc: smp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is it just me, or... Message-ID: <199803220841.QAA11326@spinner.netplex.com.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 22 Mar 1998 10:09:47 %2B0200." <199803220809.KAA17674@zibbi.mikom.csir.co.za>
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John Hay wrote:
> > > > > It is just me or has the smp kernel taken a nose dive over the last m
onth
> >
> > > > > or so?
> >
> > Damn.. rc5des just took a dive on the machine while running on a UP
> > kernel. Damn! Damn! Damn! That narrows that part down to either the rest
> > of the system being ELF or a hardware problem...
> >
>
> Be carefull, at least some versions of rc5des had a bug in their PPro/PII
> core that made them coredump when they switched back from des to rc5. It
> was reported on their mailing list a while back and I then switched back
> to an older rc5 only version. I haven't looked to see if they have a fix
> yet.
Ahhh shit!! This was it.. If I get it to the stage where it coredumps,
and switch to non-ppro cpu code, it picks up the checkpoint and merrily
submits the completed key. Damn!!!!!! I wish the distributed.net folks
would update the freebsd binaries because this has lost them a whole chunk
of keyspace.
(not to mention the 16 byte "current version" of the non-threaded binary
on the server, the .gz compression must be pretty good to get it from
700-odd K down to 16 bytes.)
> John
Cheers,
-Peter
--
Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Netplex Consulting
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