At 1:12 PM -0400 10/4/02, PPrymmer@factset.com wrote: >I have just succeeded in building an unpatched perl 5.8.0 >using DEC C V6.0-001 on OpenVMS Alpha V7.3-1 with MMK V3.9-3 >on an ODS-2 volume. Interesting. Is XFC enabled? Have you installed the DEC AXPVMS VMS731_RMS V1.0 ECO? >I note that Steve reported a failure to build the File::Glob >extension. I can reproduce it with any extension and it exhibits the problem when run outside of make_ext.com. For example, I can just go to [.ext.attrs] and do an MMK and it gets stuck doing lots of CPU and I/O. I can't tell what it's doing I/O *with* since none of the channels it has open is busy. Oh, and just to add to the surreal aspects of this, MONITOR PROCESS/TOPDIO tells me that it thinks it's doing over 50,000 direct I/Os per second! I'll check for antimatter emanating from the system disk but otherwise I think it's safe to say this is not possible. The system is spending 70-80% of its time in kernel mode. If I do SET WATCH FILE/CLASS=ALL and repeat, then MMK does not get stuck, so there may be a timing issue of some sort involved and the dump of all the file accesses slows things down sufficiently to make a difference. >My suspicions with the >trouble that Steve is seeing is that perhaps this is a >different signature to the UAF limit exceeeded problem(???). >FWIW I had: > >$ search config.sh pgflq >pgflquota='15000000' > >which is in excess of the UAF default value. Excess is right. 15 million pagelets is roughly 7.5 GB of pagefile. I increased mine up to 1.5 million pagelets from 200,000 and I still see the problem. We've always said 100,000 was enough to build Perl so I doubt whether anything like what you have could be necessary (or even possible without a much larger pagefile than I have). But of course there are other quotas than pagefile. But poking around in the SDA while the stuck process is spinning away I see no evidence of quota problems. It's still possible that a system service call hits a quota problem and MMK doesn't handle the failure properly and then gets stuck later while trying to do something that it can't. I think the I/O wackiness is the real smoking gun here, I just don't know exactly what it means yet. -- ________________________________________ Craig A. Berry mailto:craigberry@mac.com "... getting out of a sonnet is much more difficult than getting in." Brad LeithauserThread Previous | Thread Next