From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Mar 4 11:40:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (osmium.gn.iaf.nl [193.67.144.12]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3052937B87B for ; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 11:40:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wilko@yedi.iaf.nl) Received: from yedi.iaf.nl (uucp@localhost) by uni4nn.gn.iaf.nl (8.9.2/8.9.2) with UUCP id UAA32063; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:32:52 +0100 (MET) Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA62656; Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:18:34 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wilko) Date: Sat, 4 Mar 2000 20:18:34 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: Tom Knienieder Cc: Andrew Gallatin , freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Alpha ISO is fantastic! Message-ID: <20000304201834.G62387@yedi.iaf.nl> References: <212CC57E84B8D111AD780000F84AA049083C2C11@mroexc2.tay.dec.com> <20000303232726.A5993@yedi.iaf.nl> <14528.17265.955978.964252@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <38C0CCE9.89862D97@knienieder.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <38C0CCE9.89862D97@knienieder.com>; from tom@knienieder.com on Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:44:25AM +0100 X-OS: FreeBSD yedi.iaf.nl 3.4-STABLE FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Mar 04, 2000 at 09:44:25AM +0100, Tom Knienieder wrote: > Andrew Gallatin wrote: > > > > Wilko Bulte writes: > > > I'd be very interested to see how the XP1000 behaves running X as I see > > > problems on all my Alphas (Miata GL , Miata MX5 and EB64+/Aspen Alpine) > > > when running X. .. > > On a related note -- Wilko, can you try compiling X with either -O or > > -O0? I just tracked down a nasty bug troubling somebody else which > > was caused by gcc generating bad code. I have a sneaking suspicion > > that the compiler might be behind at least some of your pain. > > I noticed the same thing. For example mysql-3.23.11-alpha has > uptimes from serveral minutes on my 164lx under heavy load. > I changed the CFLAGS from -O3 and -O2 to -O0. It's up for > over 20 hours now. Ai... If this is also the cause of my X trouble I wonder if it makes sense to create the RC3 for Alpha with -O or -O0 ? W/ -- Wilko Bulte Arnhem, The Netherlands http://www.tcja.nl The FreeBSD Project: http://www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message