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Date:      Tue, 4 Nov 2003 13:48:27 +0100
From:      Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely12.cicely.de>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: New alpha 5.x bug
Message-ID:  <20031104124826.GH42463@cicely12.cicely.de>
In-Reply-To: <20031104031740.GA67484@rot13.obsecurity.org>
References:  <20031101103955.GA42891@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031104031740.GA67484@rot13.obsecurity.org>

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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:17:40PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:39:55AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> > On a whim, I updated one of the alpha package machines to -current.
> > It lasted a few hours under load before going into an infinite loop
> > displaying the following on the console:
> > 
> > prologue botch: displacement 32
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > prologue botch: displacement 32
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > frame size botch: adjust register offsets?
> > prologue botch: displacement 32
> > 
> > Any ideas?
> 
> This is repeatable..it starts after a few minutes under load.

If I understood this correct the cause can be almost everything :(
I can't speak for this problem yet, because my test systems are a bit
older, but speaking for the pipe corruption:
I did a lots of bzip1, tar, scp, nfs(client) without noticing any
sign of problem.
What is so special with the port cluster?
I have no clue about it's design.

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B.Walter                   BWCT                http://www.bwct.de
ticso@bwct.de                                  info@bwct.de



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