After digging further into my problem with the SIGILL on an openVZ slice -- thanks much Rick Myers for the tip -- I'm trying to find out who, if anyone, is running mod_perl on an AVX enabled hardware.
According to wikipedia, the only currently available processor using these extensions is the new Xeon Sandy Bridge. The VPS tech people provided me with a fresh fedora 14 slice using glibc 2.13 for testing, and the problem persists. I don't know how much software this affects -- the only thing I've noticed is mod_perl when using certain modules, such as Apache2::Const or Mouse, and a threaded httpd -- but if it is this underlying glibc issue then anyone else doing the same thing should be having the same problem. Thanks, MK -- "Enthusiasm is not the enemy of the intellect." (said of Irving Howe) "The angel of history[...]is turned toward the past." (Walter Benjamin)
