[Crash (Un)Reproducibility] [Was: Re: [ANN] 7061 = Squeak 3.9 final]

Giovanni Corriga giovanni at corriga.net
Tue Sep 26 22:55:03 UTC 2006


Il giorno mar, 26/09/2006 alle 09.56 -0400, Milan Zimmermann ha scritto:
> On 2006 September 26 04:23, Giovanni Corriga wrote:
> >
> > Ok, here's mine:
> >
> > [gcorriga at rincewind ~]$ squeak -version
> > 3.9-7 #1 Thu May 18 12:06:33 CEST 2006 gcc 4.1.0
> > Squeak3.9alpha of 4 July 2005 [latest update: #7021]
> > Linux rincewind 2.6.16-1.2111_FC5.stk16 #1 Mon May 8 10:49:23 EDT 2006
> > i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
> > default plugin location: /usr/lib/squeak/3.9-7/*.so
> >
> > could this be related to the use of gcc 4.x?
> 
> I think Bert said in another reply, this problem is likely due to the kernel 
> and/or memory over 2Gb. On this system (where it works) I have 1Gb memory and 
> something like 2Gb swap, my kernel=vmlinuz-2.6.11.4-21.13 so I guess it makes 
> sense it works here from memory perspectivenot sure about 2.6 kernel. 
> Giovanni, do you have over 2GB?

Actually, yes. Anyway, if the workaround suggested by Diego and
confirmed by John works, we shouldn't postpone the 3.9 release: let's
just add a remark in the release notes and worry about fixing the bug
for either 3.9.1 or 3.10.

	Giovanni




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