On Jan 17, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Rainer Jung wrote: > On 17.01.2011 15:45, Rainer Jung wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I get a crash on Solaris Sparc during startup in the test suite after >> the proxy refactoring. Since it is a "Bus error" I wildly guess the root >> cause is an alignment issue in the shared memory. Sparc ist sensible to >> that and the only other Bus error or httpd I remember was wrong >> alignment in shm for mod_ssl shmcb (long ago). > > In addition to the fix in slotmem (see previous mail) I suggest hardening the > balancer against future crashes by also aligning the slot data at 8 byte > boundaries (more precisely the APR default alignment): > > http://people.apache.org/~rjung/patches/mod_proxy_alignment.patch >
Untested, but +1 for better alignment for slotmem in gen and how proxy uses it.
