[Openmcl-devel] 1.8 prerelease

[Antony]

On 3/14/2012 10:55 AM, Gary Byers wrote:
> I just tried this with the current trunk CCL on FreeBSD 9.0 running on
> a VMWare VM on a Mac. "ab -n 2000 -c 4 https://localhost:8083/" ran to
> completion (though every request got "SSL read failed - closing
> connection", presumably because ab can't deal with self-signed 
> certificates.)
>
> Last month, I don't think that I was sure whether there was a problem
> with CCL and FreeBSD 9.0 or whether there was a problem with FreeBSD
> 9.0 and the virtualization software that you were using.  The fact
> that this worked for me (as well as it did) makes me more suspicious
> of the latter at this point.
>
> CCL is very sensitive to the format of a signal context (a data structure
> that describes the machine state at the time that an exception occurred.)
> At some point, the size and layout of the machine-dependent parts of a
> signal context will change in some way (to accommodate AVX and 256-bit
> vector registers.)  I don't think that FreeBSD has made any such change
> as of 9.0, and FreeBSD has generally been very good (at least since 5.x)
> about maintaining backward compatibility at this level.
>
I converted the bsd vm to play in VMWare vmplayer.
Ran the same test. CCL segfaulted after about 80 requests.
Could you try with the script I mentioned at
http://clozure.com/pipermail/openmcl-devel/2012-February/013376.html
since it completes the requests even with self signed certs unlike  ab
I guess it doesn't make much difference, but its a relatively easy thing 
to try

-Antony