Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Failure to make world for RELENG_6_4 Message-ID: <20090406043945.GA84052@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> In-Reply-To: <49D96475.2070309@delphij.net> References: <20090402044358.GA34249@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20090406020446.GD78037@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <49D96475.2070309@delphij.net>
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Xin LI wrote: > >> misc/133264 > > > > This one however is not so simple. I have tried building world under > > VMWare ESXi 3.5.0 Update 3 (FreeBSD as a guest OS) and the building > > process crashed occasionally if more than 1 CPU is allocated to the > > virtual machine. The failures are due to various processes like sh, > > sed or cc1 dupming core on signal 11 during the build. > > > > The problem seems to be SMP related because enabling only 1 virtual > > CPU removes the problem. Of course it is also VMWare related. > > - From what you have described, it's likely that there is some memory > issue. The FreeBSD Virtual Memory system tends to use all physical > memory and this could be a problem for faulty memory chips (i.e. it's > more easy for FreeBSD to trigger problems). How is this connected with the number of virtual CPUs? When I give only 1 CPU to the virtual machine, the problem is gone. > > If you have access to the host system and possible, would you please try > to install FreeBSD directly and see if the problem still occurs? Sorry, I cannot do that. This host is already running several Windows servers and has been thoroughly tested before production use. I have however run Memtest-86 v3.2 in the virtual machine for 2 hours and it has found no errors. -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN sip:sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru
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