Re: 1.3.88 stress testing (was: .. and oh, btw ..)
Matthias Reineke (matt@flagg.owl.de)
Mon, 15 Apr 1996 16:01:37 +0200
In article <57c58af151cb@flagg.owl.de> you wrote:
: On Sat, 13 Apr 1996, Linus Torvalds wrote:
: [munch]
: > In mm/memory.c, function verify_area(), there is a test that looks like
: > if (expand_stack(vma, start))
: > goto good_area;
: > but that test is actually reversed, and should be
: > if (expand_stack(vma, start) == 0)
: > goto good_area;
: [munch]
:
: I have just tried running Bernd Schmidt's make -j script on a clean
: 1.3.88 and 1.3.88 with the above patch. The clean 1.3.88 fails with the
: odd SIG11 and SIG6 but the patched version is perfect. Excellent work!!
:
: (I've tagged a copy of Bernd's script on below for those linux-kernel
: people who missed it the first time around and want to stress their
: machines a little. On the subject of SIG11: the memtest program on sunsite
: does an excellent job of sniffing out bad RAM and even found a buggy
: motherboard for me which kept gettting SIG11's)
:
System: Linux 1.3.88, gcc-2.7.2, libc-5.3.9, ld.so-1.7.14
My memory tests ok with memtest86.
Stresstesting gives the following result:
Linux 1.2.13: no problems!
Linux 1.3.88: SIG11
Linux 1.3.88 (patched): SIG11
Other programs: Maelstrom, Netscape-2.01: SIG11
Any suggestions?
Bye,
Matthias
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