Re: Signal 11

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Dec 08 2000 - 09:06:45 EST


> > wrong with it. I've only seen this under 2.3.x/2.4 SMP kernels. I
> > would say that this is definitely a kernel problem.=20
>
> XFree86 3.9 and XFree86 4 were rock solid for a _long_ time on 2.[34]
> kernels - even on my BP6=B9. The random crashes started to happen when =
> I
> upgraded my distribution=B2 - and are only seen by people using 2.4. So=
> I
> suspect that it's the combination of glibc and kernel which is triggeri=
> ng
> it.

Have any of the folks seeing it checked if Ben LaHaise's fixes for the page
table updating race help ?

Alan

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