From: Ken Murchison (no email)
Date: Fri Sep 07 2007 - 16:38:40 EDT
We have been running 2.3.x code on 64-bit sparcv9 kernels (Solaris 8 on
Sun Fire V240) without any problem. What is your hardware and OS?
Andy Fiddaman wrote:
> On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Andy Fiddaman wrote:
> ; I'm finally getting around to upgrading my 2.3.7 system to 2.3.9. When I
> ; put in 2.3.7 I had to patch a few things to make it work properly on
> ; 64-bit SPARC, mainly unaligned dereferences causing BUS faults due to
> ; the SPARC MMU.
>
> Sorry to follow up my own post but I've finished testing cyrus 2.3.9 on
> 64-bit Solaris SPARC and I now have a stable server as far as I can tell
> (we have a fairly intensive test suite...)
>
> In stock 2.3.9 there are quite a few 64-bit alignment problems which cause
> BUS errors and a problem with the Perl module XS that causes the imclient
> structure to be double freed and therefore crashes Perl most of the time.
>
> I've put patches for these up at http://www.fiddaman.net/cyrus/ please
> feel free to use them (or something like them) as you wish. It would be
> good to have these fixes rolled into the main Cyrus release.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Andy
>
>
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