Sebastian Moeller wrote: > Hello all! > > I hav� no real clue here but I guess it is more a kernel thing than > anything else. At least my trusty old Jensen really needs a patch for > traps.c to be usefull. I believe the culzean to be the bigger brother of > the jensen. Therefore the bug in traps.c might affect this plattform as > well. For the J awk, gs, blender an a lot of other programs using for > example floor() simply went into a tight loog, eating all processor time > there was without ever coming back from a trap. The patch I used for > kernel 2.2.17 and 2.2.18 (well I just stole it from some other place I do > not remember anymore) can be found on www.alphalinux.org under > ftp://ftp.alphalinux.org/pub/Linux-Alpha/jensen/install/EV4-2.2.17.diff. > If dedian kernel sources include this patch already please ignore > my post, but pristine kernel sources from at least 16 upward need ths > patch on the old EV4 jensen. > > Ahoi > Sebastian Moeller > > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Ben Collins wrote: > > > Can you (or one of the alpha folks Cc'd) check this on the latest glibc > > 2.2.1 in woody/sid? It's not s serious enough issue for me to back port > > a fix to 2.1.3, so if it's fixed in 2.2.1, I'm going to close this bug. > > > > Thanks > > > > On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 05:33:20PM +0100, Ivan Vighetto wrote: > > > Package: libc6.1 > > > Version: 2.1.3-13 > > > > > > I use a Digital Alpha DEC2000 AXP500 Cunzen architecture with 128MB of > > > RAM. > > > I installed postgresql and had some problem, after a long mail exchange > > > with Oliver Elphick (Debian postgresql mantainer), I discovered there is > > > a problem with ceil() function, It goes in loop, get all the CPU but > > > little memory. I tried to do a very little C program and had the same > > > behaviour, the source of my litle program is: > > > > > > > > > #include <stdio.h> > > > #include <math.h> > > > > > > int main() > > > { > > > int i; > > > double x; > > > > > > i = 3; > > > > > > x = i; > > > printf("Ciao: %f\n", ceil(x)); > > > } > > > > -- > > -----------=======-=-======-=========-----------=====------------=-=------ > > / Ben Collins -- ...on that fantastic voyage... -- Debian GNU/Linux \ > > ` [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] ' > > `---=========------=======-------------=-=-----=-===-======-------=--=---' > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
It works perfectly! Great.! Postgres works too (it was the first software where I got the problem) TNX to all

