On Saturday 07 January 2006 02:30, Natanael Copa wrote:
> On lør, 2006-01-07 at 00:44 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Wednesday 04 January 2006 03:52, Natanael Copa wrote:
> > > I got a report from someone who experienced lockups when using
> > > gentoo-embedded built system (2.6.14-hardened-r1)
> >
> > this is a hardened kernel issue rather than a userland issue ... you'd be
> > better off e-mailing the gentoo-hardened list
>
> Probably, but I think I found the reason. Whenever I build the kernel
> with "optimize for size" it hangs after an hour with intense net load
> and io load (I made a loop that dd if=/dev/cdrom)
>
> When I disabled "Configure standard kernel features (for small
> systems)" (gcc -Os) the problem magically went away.

the kernel can be pretty sensitive to optimizations

> So I think its a bug in gcc version 3.4.4 (Gentoo Hardened 3.4.4-r1,
> ssp-3.4.4-1.0, pie-8.7.8)
>
> Makes me nervous because I have built everything with -Os.
>
> I can probably just report it on bugzilla directly?

yes, but you probably wont get much feedback :/
-mike

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