On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:41:46AM +1000, Jason White wrote:
> I am experiencing occasional and unpredictable "memory fault" errors
> with Berkeley DB 4.0.14 (I am testing Subversion:
> http://subversion.tigris.org/).
>
> On the Subversion mailing list it was suggested that if there are mmap
> problems with XFS, these might be the cause of the crashes, which seem
> to be due to Berkeley DB rather than the Subversion software itself.
>
> The kernel I am running is:
> Linux jdc 2.4.17-xfs #1 Sat Jan 19 16:47:16 EST 2002 i686
> (checked out from cvs on that date).
>
> Any suggestions?
yes 2.4.17 with XFS is broken.
> I am willing to upgrade my kernel, but thought it best to inquire on
> the list first to find out whether this is likely to be XFS-related,
> if so whether it has been fixed and whether I can help to track it
> down.
>
> I am also waiting for 2.4.19-xfs to stabilize before upgrading; as I
> remember, there were bugs that Steve Lord and others were working on.
>
> There was some discussion of mmap problems recently, but that was only
> on power-pc - wasn't it?
no it was all archietectures, apt-get would segfault because its
binary caches became corrupt (this was due to msync() being broken in
that kernel).
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Ethan Benson
http://www.alaska.net/~erbenson/
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