Re: domU's report "Out of memory allocating ksiginfo for pid ###"

[Mike Bowie <mbowie%buzmo.com@localhost>]

Sarton O'Brien wrote:
> Mike Bowie wrote:
> > I have a Dell PowerEdge 1950-III which I've been working at getting 
> > online with xen.  The ultimate goal is to bring four matching machines 
> > into production in this same configuration.  I had hoped to do so with 
> > 4.0, however the mfi driver for the PERC 6/i (which features in this 
> > box) wasn't ported from OpenBSD until February.  I'd also looked at 
> > installing various incarnations of HEAD, however the last one I 
> > managed to install had trouble with the bnx driver core-dumping and 
> > the ISOs for the past week or two all core-dump when loading sysinst.
>
> I know it looks bad but don't let this deter you. On my system (dell 
> sc430), Xen appears to be more stable than ever at the moment and I've 
> been riding this train since early last year, actually the end of the 
> year before.
>
> I use build.sh for upgrading so haven't encounter the sysinst issue but 
> I have seen it mentioned.
>
> Trying to debug the problems you will experience ... due to the 
> currently failing sysinst, may be rather time consuming and may have 
> already been fixed. I'd suggest attempting to boot a newer kernel and 
> updating your userland in-place. Just make sure you backup your existing 
> system.
>
> Sarton

Hi Sarton,

Perhaps surprisingly, I'm not that discouraged by it at all.  Were I 
working with a system for which I have less respect or trust in (which 
these days are mostly OS's without the three letters "B", "S" and "D" in 
their names) I'd certainly have moved on by now!

As mentioned in another reply; I am going to see about pulling my system 
closer to HEAD before I get too busy debugging issues which may already 
have been resolved upstream.  Given the brilliant simplicity which 
build.sh provides, I'm thinking that should be a reasonably simple step 
forward.

Thank you for the feedback and encouragement... and certainly glad to 
hear that you've found success in a similar arena!

Cheers,

Mike.