make check fails on rhel5/ppc

[Jason Evans]

On Mar 26, 2012, at 12:44 AM, Ingvar Hagelund wrote:
> With the proposed atomic operations for ppc patch, I can finally build
> jemalloc-2.2.5 on rhel5/ppc. make check fails like this for all but the
> bitmap test.
> 
> Too many small size classes (269 > max 256)
> 
> More details below.
> 
> Is this just missing tuning? Where are the knobs to turn?

Something terrible must be wrong with the configuration.  Quantum and page size are the most likely culprits; what are they set at?

The relevant code for this failure is in arena.c:arena_boot().

Thanks,
Jason