[OpenSIPS-Users] Core Dump

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Hello Bogdan,

An ven., févr 19, 2010, Bogdan-Andrei Iancu schrieb:
>opensipslist at encambio.com wrote:
>> An jeu., févr 18, 2010, Nathaniel L Keeling schrieb:
>>> I have compiled opensips 1.6.1 on Solaris Sparc 10. I was able to
>>> compile successfully by adding the parameter "-mcpu=ultrasparc" to
>>> the "DEFS" compile time options in Makefile.defs, but when I
>>> execute opensips, it will die with a core dump. It does thru the
>>> loading of the modules ok but dies later.
>>>
>> Both Solaris 10 Sparc or Solaris 11 x86 do core dump when trying
>> to use OpenSIPS 1.6.1. Nobody has seem to be able to diagnose this
>> correctly much less repair the problem.
>>
>How comes ? I know people using 1.6 on sparc + Solaris  :P....
>
I don't know either, but I'm sure that some builds work better
than others. This would particularly be the case if the problem
code was in a certain module or component which some builds are
missing. My build contains almost everything.

>> If you try the same build parameters to compile 1.6.0 you will
>> probably find that it not only compiles correctly but runs without
>> core dumping as well. So much for the
>>
>>     'it is recommended to upgrade, as it provides important
>>      stability improvements'
>>
>> that they write about the 1.6.1 release on the website.
>>
>hmmm... if you see the compiling as stability, maybe you are right....
>
The buildtime is not as problematic as the runtime, which only
rarely coredumps on 1.6.0 but quite often on 1.6.1. I can get
1.6.0 to coredump as well by forcing OpenSIPS to try writing
to TCP connections which don't exist. Being careful with 1.6.0
then it is possible to get a few weeks worth of usage with no
core dump, maybe more.

>Now, getting serious... the problem is that since SF trashed the 
>compiled farm, we (or at least I) do not have any sparc / solaris 
>platform were to test the makefile options or the code...
>
You can do a lot with a single good machine and Xen, but that
is maybe food for another thread. It's sad indeed that no Solaris
platforms are available for testing.

Regards,
Brian