Re: BLCR 0.4.1 Beta5 now available

From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: Mon Oct 17 2005 - 09:15:16 PDT

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    Ladislav,
    
      I am glad to here thins still work well for you on the 64-bit systems.
      You are the first to report problems isolated to only simple_pthreads 
    and pipe (on any platform) that could not be fixed by raising the timeout.
    
    -Paul
    
    Ladislav Subr wrote:
    
    >Dear Paul,
    >
    >'make check' works fine on my dual Opterons (Beta4 was also successfull). I'll 
    >use it on my cluster and let you know how it behaves on longer time-scale 
    >(unlike others, I've had quite positive experience with Beta4).
    >
    >I've tested current version also on 32-bit Athlon (vanilla kernel 2.6.13.3) 
    >and Pentium III (several vanilla kernels 2.6.12.x and 2.6.13.x), both on SUSE 
    >9.0 distro. Two of the standard tests always failed (simple_pthread.ct and 
    >pipe.ct), both with restart/timeout message. I've tested also Beta4 and Beta2 
    >on the same systems with identical results. Motivated by some of your e-mail 
    >a few months ago, I've also tried to increase $test_timeout to 300 (on PIII), 
    >but it haven't changed the results. What is the others' experience on 32-bit 
    >processors?
    >
    >Best regards
    >
    >	Ladislav
    >
    >
    >  
    >
    >>A new BLCR beta (0.4.1_b5) is now available at:
    >>	http://mantis.lbl.gov/blcr-dist/
    >>
    >>This fixes (at least on my test system) the kernel crashes observed with
    >>AMD64 and EM64T systems.  Therefore I'd appreciate hearing both positive
    >>and negative reports from those who have tried previous betas on x86_64
    >>systems.
    >>
    >>Note that with this release, the blrc kernel-side functionallity has
    >>split into three kernel modules:
    >>   blcr
    >>   blcr_vmadump
    >>   blcr_imports
    >>versus two previously:
    >>   blcr
    >>   vmadump_blcr
    >>Any scripts you may have to (un)load kernel modules may need updating.
    >>
    >>-Paul
    >>    
    >>
    

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