Unaligned traps in Alpha RedHat 6.1

From: Gunnar Wolf <gwolf(at)campus(dot)iztacala(dot)unam(dot)mx>
To: pgsql-ports(at)hub(dot)org
Subject: Unaligned traps in Alpha RedHat 6.1
Date: 2000-05-10 20:38:25
Message-ID: Pine.LNX.4.10.10005101527130.845-100000@campus.iztacala.unam.mx
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I recently installed Postgres in a 21164A Alpha system, running RedHat 6.1
(the installation was off the RPMs included with RedHat). While Postgres
runs correctly, it does not run as fast as I would expect it to on this
machine. Besides, every time a query is made, I get on my
/var/log/messages a couple of lines similar to this one:

May 10 15:08:59 tlamantli kernel: postmaster(1446): unaligned trap at 000000012013f2a0: 000000011fff9e55 28 1

From what I have read, this is more a warning than an error, explaining
that the program tried to access memory not aligned to the 64-bit
boundaries needed by the Alpha architecture - and thus slowing down
execution.

Is there something I can do about this?

Thank you.

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Gunnar Wolf gwolf(at)campus(dot)iztacala(dot)unam(dot)mx
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Campus Iztacala
Jefatura de Sección de Desarrollo y Admon. de Sistemas en Red
Area de Seguridad en Computo - DCI - DGSCA - UNAM
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Beginner thinks 1Kb == 1000 bytes. Master knows 1Km == 1024m

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