[Info-vax] Bizarro crash... where to begin...

[VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG]

In article <m96dnVnpZZagwwXTnZ2dnUVZ_rmdnZ2d at earthlink.com>, "John Reagan" <johnrreagan at earthlink.net> writes:
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><VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message 
>news:00AB6DE3.E77AF456 at SendSpamHere.ORG...
>> Threaded application running along swimmingly coughed up a phlegm ball:
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>> Failing Instruction:
>> SYS$PAL_MTPR_IPL_C:              alloc       r35 = ar.pfs, 05, 03, 00
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>alloc's only fail for strange reasons like register backing store full or 
>somebody garbled the registers that point to the backing store.

Yeah, I've been rereading the ARM sections on this.  What I need now it to
figure out what the blood stains in the crash dump are telling me.

FWIW, this was from a stress test.  12 multi-threaded processes banging at
the same time.  It could be a register backing store full but shouldn't the
RSE handle this???

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