Testers Needed!!

Wilko Bulte wkb at freebie.xs4all.nl
Wed Mar 17 14:44:05 PST 2004


On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 08:37:21PM -0500, Stephane E. Potvin wrote:
> 
> On 15-Mar-04, at 6:18 PM, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 01:20:32PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>On Friday 12 March 2004 06:07 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >>>On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 11:56:26PM +0100, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >>>>On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 05:15:52PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>>>On Friday 12 March 2004 04:28 pm, Wilko Bulte wrote:
> >>>>>>On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 03:43:03PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> >>>>>>>Ok, two patches that I need someone to test.  First off, I have
> >
> >>>>>etc. work ok w/o generating a LOR warning (which means you have to 
> >>>>>have
> >>>>>WITNESS on for this test).  Thanks for testing these.
> >>>>
> >>>>I'm by no standard a gdb specialist but I played with it with a 
> >>>>WITNESS
> >>>>equipped kernel and it did not complain about LOR. On a UP DS10 btw.
> >>>>
> >>>>Gonna try the other patch next.
> >>>
> >>>Hmm..
> >>>
> >...
> >
> >>bah, you'll need to add a '<sys/sched.h>' include to interrupt.c.  
> >>I'll fix it
> >>in my tree here and commit the ptrace patch.  Thanks!
> >
> >I have the interrupt.c patch now in test. Currently the DS10 is doing a
> >plain buildworld, I will move to make -j<big#> next.
> >
> >How long would the test need to run for a reliable indication of 
> >Go/NoGo
> >
> 
> Make sure that you have more than 4G swapspace. I had a -j 256 die on 
> me after
> 48 hours with 768Mb ram and 4G swap. I'll bump the swap to 8G and try 
> again
> (crossing fingers). You'll also have to raise kern.ipc.maxpipekva to at 
> least
> 24Mb too.

I have 1GB RAM and 2 GB swap. swap does not seem to be used much.

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Wilko Bulte				wilko at FreeBSD.org


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