On 23 Jan, Pete French wrote: > On 22/01/2018 18:25, Don Lewis wrote: >> On 22 Jan, Pete French wrote: >>> >>> >>> On 21/01/2018 19:05, Peter Moody wrote: >>>> hm, so i've got nearly 3 days of uptime with smt disabled. >>>> unfortunately this means that my otherwise '12' cores is actually only >>>> '6'. I'm also getting occasional segfaults compiling go programs. >>> >>> Isn't go known to have issues on BSD anyway though ? I have seen >>> complaints of random crashes running go under BSD systems - and >>> preseumably the go compiler itself is written in go, so those issues >>> might surface when compiling. >> >> Not that I'm aware of. I'm not a heavy go user on FreeBSD, but I don't >> recall any unexpected go crashes and I haven't seen problems building >> go on my older AMD machines. > > > From the go 1.9 release notes: > > "Known Issues > There are some instabilities on FreeBSD that are known but not > understood. These can lead to program crashes in rare cases. See issue > 15658. Any help in solving this FreeBSD-specific issue would be > appreciated." > > ( link is to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15658 ) > > Having said that, we use it internally and have not seen any issues with > it ourselves. Just I am wary of the release notes, and that issue report.
Interesting ... I've only seen problems on my Ryzen machine, which has >= 2x the number of cores as any of my other machines. All are AMD CPUs. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
