Random segfaults with 2.6

[Michel Dänzer]

On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 16:11, Ernst Persson wrote:
> I'm running the latest linuxppc-2.5-benh and I'm getting a lot of random
> segfaults, specially in development tools.
> Emergeing in gentoo works half the time. Gcc and configure crashes, and this
> never happens with 2.4.*.

Is CONFIG_PREEMPT enabled? I used to get random segfaults and other
weird behaviour after a couple of hours of uptime (running linuxppc-2.5
from August 26th), and it all seems to be gone with preempt disabled. :\


> Linux zapp.no-ip.com 2.6.0-test4 #5 lör sep 6 12:40:19 CEST 2003 ppc  740/750
> GNU/Linux
> Module                  Size  Used by
> dmasound_pmac          85464  2 [unsafe]
> dmasound_core          20460  3 dmasound_pmac
> soundcore               9344  3 dmasound_core
> i2c_core               25060  1 dmasound_pmac

I thought dmasound wasn't working in 2.6? :)


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