From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 6 04:39:48 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EABF106566B for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 04:39:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) Received: from relay2.tomsk.ru (relay2.tomsk.ru [212.73.124.8]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C7878FC0A for ; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 04:39:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Virus-Scanned: by clamd daemon 0.93.1 for FreeBSD at relay2.tomsk.ru Received: from admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (account sudakov@sibptus.tomsk.ru [212.73.125.240] verified) by relay2.tomsk.ru (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.13) with ESMTPSA id 12244051 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 06 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0700 Received: (from sudakov@localhost) by admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru (8.13.6/8.13.6/Submit) id n364dj0B084334 for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0700 (OMSST) (envelope-from vas@mpeks.tomsk.su) X-Authentication-Warning: admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru: sudakov set sender to vas@mpeks.tomsk.su using -f Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2009 11:39:45 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20090406043945.GA84052@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> Mail-Followup-To: Victor Sudakov , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <20090402044358.GA34249@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <20090406020446.GD78037@admin.sibptus.tomsk.ru> <49D96475.2070309@delphij.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <49D96475.2070309@delphij.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Organization: AO "Svyaztransneft", SibPTUS X-PGP-Key: http://vas.tomsk.ru/vas.asc Subject: Re: Failure to make world for RELENG_6_4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2009 04:39:48 -0000 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