Re: [PORTS] RedHat6.0 & Alpha

Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu>

From: Ryan Kirkpatrick <rkirkpat@nag.cs.colorado.edu>
To: Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>
Cc: Uncle George <gatgul@voicenet.com>, pgsql-ports@postgreSQL.org
Date: 1999-07-30T02:28:42Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> > On Wed, 28 Jul 1999, Thomas Lockhart wrote:
> > 
> > > >         This time it worked great! No stuck spinlocks (and -O2 was used!),
> > > > and all the regression tests, saved for rules as Uncle G. has already
> > > > mentioned.
> > > 
> > > Fantastic.
> > 
> > 	One thing I did forget to mention, is that I am getting a decent
> > handful of unaligned traps from postmaster. To put a number on that, from
> > running the regression tests three times, once with numeric_big enabled, I
> > got ~164 unaligned traps. 
> > 	Not a show stopper, but something that probably needs to looked
> > into at some point in order to maximize performance of pgsql on Alphas.
> 
> Does it give you the location?  I have already applied some alignment
> cleanups to the current cvs tree.

	The only location it gives are memory addresses, like:

postmaster(21349): unaligned trap at 0000000120131600: 000000011fff6a5d 28 1

If these are useful (which I doubt), I can provide you with a set from the
run of the regression tests quite easily.

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