Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:05:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:05:37 -0400 Received: from smtp1.legato.com ([137.69.200.1]:36071 "EHLO smtp1.legato.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:05:31 -0400 Message-ID: <016a01c15831$ef51c5c0$5c044589@legato.com> From: "David E. Weekly" To: "ML-linux-kernel" Subject: Kernel Compile in tmpfs crumples in 2.4.12 w/epoll patch Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 17:06:43 -0700 Organization: Legato Systems, Inc. MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hey all, I was trying to speed up kernel compiles experimentally by moving the source tree into tmpfs and compiling there. It seemed to work okay and crunched through the dep phase and most of the main build phase just fine, but then it hit a file, got an internal segfault, and stopped. I tried again -- this time make itself segfaulted. Three more times of make segfaulting -- a strace on make didn't reveal what was failing. Then strace started segfaulting. Eventually "ls" segfaulted and the machine needed to be manually rebooted. Ouch! I ran the full memtest86 suite on the machine, and it passed with flying colors. So the memory proper is okay. I come to one of two conclusions: this is a wierd problem with my north bridge, or there's something funky going on with tmpfs. Is tmpfs stable? Yours, -david - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/