> Trying to stress-test some new hardware, I did "make -j" on the kernel
> sources. It runs for a while, starts swapping a lot, load average goes
> up to 30 or so, then cc1 gets fatal signal 11. There is still plenty
> of free swap space at this point (20MB total, about 10MB free).
> The symptom is usually signal 11, but sometimes also syntax errors in
> perfectly good include files. It looks like memory corruption caused
> by some changes between 1.3.58 and 1.3.74. I suspect the new swapping
> or page cache code.
Everithing works fine with 1.2.13, but
i can reproduce this error with Kernel 1.3.57.
I never got a segfault in gcc, but I sometimes get corrupted headerfiles.
I think something with the pagecache is wrong. After
I got an error because off a bad include file, I inspected it with
vi, and it was really destroyed. Then I started about 30 xmosaic at the
same time, and then killed them. This seemed to clear the pagecache, because
memory was low. The include file was no longer corrupted afterwards.
Jochen