Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2000 20:36:59 +0100 (BST) From: Neil Hoggarth <njh@kernighan.demon.co.uk> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Mark Rowlands <mark.rowlands@minmail.net>, Matt Groener <root@groenquist.com> Subject: Re: init: /bin/sh terminates abnormally in /etc/rc Qlogic problem? profiling timer expired Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0009242020390.360-100000@homebrew.kernighan.demon.co.uk>
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On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, I wrote: > I still have the problem, and I haven't had a chance to properly > explore it. I had a quick poke around with the web interface to the > CVS repository, and it appeared to me that the Qlogic driver itself > hasn't changed since 4.1-RELEASE, and I'm running 4.1-RELEASE okay > (well, sort of - I'm having X11 problems that I didn't have with > 3.4-RELEASE, but I don't know that this is related to the profiling > timer thing). I think that I take that back. Profiling timer problems *do* appear to be present in my 4.1-RELEASE installation, though they are not anything like as severe as in 4-STABLE of 23rd August (where they are bad enough to prevent the system coming up multiuser). The 4.1-RELEASE system boots and fscks its filesystems okay, but some things do still die, aparently at random, with signal 27 (SIGPROF); most notably the XFree86 3.3.6 server for my Matrox G200 graphics card. I also had a "make installworld" fail with a "Profiling timer expired" error (a subsequent attempt to installworld worked). A couple of questions: 1) Can anyone explain to me what the "profiling timer" is, and under what circumstances the kernel delivers SIGPROF to processes (or give me a push/pointer in the right direction)? 2) I'd be interested to know if anybody out there is using the isp driver successfully in 4-STABLE? Regards, Neil. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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