Probably something went wrong with your rdsinit command. Can you send me the parameters you entered for that? Also, which version of RVM have you been using? There is a recent version on the WWW: ftp://ftp.coda.cs.cmu.edu/pub/rvm A couple of important bugs were fixed during the last six months. - Peter - ----- Original Message ----- From: Benjamin Atkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 12, 1999 10:50 AM Subject: RVM enquiry -- segmentation fault with Linux 2.0.34-0.6 :Hello, : :I am a PhD student at Cornell University. I downloaded the RVM :distribution from CMU's web site a few days ago and compiled it :successfully, but following the instructions included in the RVM manual :carefully, I got an "RVM_ENO_MEMORY" error when running "rvm_basher". :I made a preliminary trace through the source code, but I wasn't able to :easily see what the problem was. I'm running Redhat Linux 5.0, kernel :version 2.0.34-0.6. Could you give me any advice as to what the problem :might be? (I have appended a copy of the output to the end of this message. : :Thank you very much. : : Benjamin Atkin : :--- : :glenfiddich: [~/research/rvm/tests] $ ./rvm_basher < basher_parms :* * * * * * * * * * * * * :Current Test Parameters: : : Log file: basher_log : Data file: basher_data : Data file length: 1003520 : Number of operations/cycle: 500 : Maximum number of transactions/operation: 10 : Maximum number of ranges/transaction: 100 : Maximum modification range size: 200 : Maximum big modification range size: 500000 : Maximum allocation block size: 10000 : Number of preallocated blocks: 100 : Truncate after preallocation: false : % transactions to abort: 10 : % transactions to commit with flush: 20 : % transactions started with restore: 20 : : Number of test cycles: unlimited : Number of worker threads: 1 : Execution priority: -1 : Random seed: 12345 : Allocator check level: 0 : Test options: big_range time_tests chk_vm : : RVM optimizations: coalesce_ranges coalesce_trans : RVM truncation threshold: 0% : RVM recovery buffer length: 262144 : RVM flush buffer length: 262144 : RVM max. read length: 524288 : RVM check sum flag: false : RVM no yield flag: false : RVM vm protect flag: false : Show break point: false : :* :rvm_initialize succeeded. :Just mapped in region (8080000,983040) :Just mapped in region (8170000,4096) :rds_start_heap successful :Preallocating test blocks : :0: ERROR: alloc end_trans, code: RVM_ENO_MEMORY :ASSERTion failed: file "rvm_basher.c", line 502 :Segmentation fault (core dumped) : :
