Re: RISC-V animals sporadically produce weird memory-related failures

Hello Alexander,

On Thu, Aug 22, 2024, at 11:00 AM, Alexander Lakhin wrote:
> Dear copperhead, boomslang owner, could you consider upgrading OS on
> these animals to rule out effects of OS anomalies that might be fixed
> already? If it's not an option, couldn't you perform stress testing of
> these machines, say, with stress-ng?

Thank you for investigating and sorry about the delay on my side.

Both boomslang and copperhead were running on the same HiFive Unmatched board (with soldered RAM) [1]. When I configured this machine in late 2021 riscv64 was a Debian ports architecture. When it became an official architecture all the packages were rebuilt, so upgrading this machine essentially meant re-installing it completely.

I have now done just that, but on a new HiFive Premier P550 board [2]. It is running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS with a board-specific kernel, currently 6.6.21-9-premier (2024-11-09). The buildfarm client is executing within a Debian Trixie container created from the official Debian repo.

This stack is a lot more recent, should be more future-proof, and the board is significantly faster too. Boomslang has already built all branches and copperhead is currently going through them.

[1] https://www.sifive.com/boards/hifive-unmatched
[2] https://www.sifive.com/press/hifive-premier-p550-development-boards-now-shipping

Best regards,
Tom