Re: new processes very slow on otherwise responsive system (2.1.127 and 128)

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Mon, 16 Nov 1998 10:34:57 +0000


On Sun, Nov 15, 1998 at 11:18:38AM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote:
> My personal WAG (Wild Ass Guess) is that something got changed
> from 2.1.127pre2 to 2.1.127pre3 that blew gcc up when compiling with
> SMP commented out. It got "fixed" between 2.1.127pre3 and 2.1.127pre7
> either deliberately or incidentally. I suspect that it didn't get
> fixed "right". It compiled once again, but something is still broken.

Let me add, for the record, that I'm running 2.1.127 UP with none of
these problems. Built with egcs-1.0.2, PPro optimisation specified in
kernel config.

Just in case you'd like to pin it down to a particular faulty compiler.

-- Jamie

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