New alpha 5.x bug

Kris Kennaway kris at obsecurity.org
Tue Nov 4 09:55:54 PST 2003


On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:48:27PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 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.

It does lots of parallel package builds (untar, pkg_add, compile, tar) and NFS copying.

Kris
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