GC failure w/ THREAD_LOCAL_ALLOC ?

Tue Mar 26 15:57:00 GMT 2002

Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>>"Hans" == Boehm, Hans <hans_boehm@hp.com> writes:
>>>>>>>>Hans> I can't reproduce the problem on X86 either. Questions:
>Hans> 0) Do other people see similar problems?
>>I finally tried GCTest on my x86 box. It worked fine for me. I ran
>it with no arguments. I also tried in on alpha Linux and it worked
>fine. My PPC build is still running so I haven't tried it there yet.
>
Well, I noticed that it is much more likely to happen when the machine 
is busy with other tasks. If the machine is otherwise idle, the problem 
doesn't seem to occur.
Doing something like:
while (true) do ./gctest; done
then running something else like a compile or benchmark at the same 
time, seems to help reproduce the problem on some machines.
regards
Bryce.