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Date:      Wed, 6 Aug 2003 10:07:29 -0700
From:      Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To:        Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: last stable alpha kernel?
Message-ID:  <20030806170729.GC570@athlon.pn.xcllnt.net>
In-Reply-To: <16177.7048.818230.53619@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu>
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On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 11:15:20AM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
> 
> Marcel Moolenaar writes:
>  > On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:12:06PM -0400, Andrew Gallatin wrote:
>  > > 
>  > > FWIW, here are the results I have for j16 buildworlds on UP alpha so far:
>  > 
>  > *snip*
>  > 
>  > > july22: fault on nofault entry panic
>  > 
>  > We have the fault on nofault entry panic on ia64 as well. I don't
>  > know when I have time to look at ia64, but I keep an eye on alpha
>  > when I trace it down. I suspect the cause is roughly identical
>  > (ia64 pmap was derived from alpha pmap).
> 
> Do you know when they started?  My current results are as follows:
> (all dates relative to GMT-0400)

Unfortunately not. I asked kris to restart package builds on pluto1
two days ago. That's when we got the fault on nofault panics. I
expect that the real bug was present for much longer.

> 
> If you have any advice, please don't be shy ;)
> 

Triaging when the problem first started is definitely what needs
to be done first. I would probably start at the time the pipe
changes came in. That is IIRC roughly two weeks ago. The July 22
datapoint should be fairly close.

-- 
 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net



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