From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (cthulhu.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.2]) by neteng.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id HAA86855 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:35:17 -0700 (PDT) Return-Path: Received: (from majordomo-owner@localhost) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) id HAA95298 for linux-list; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:33:56 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (owner-linux@relay.engr.sgi.com) Received: from sgi.com (sgi.engr.sgi.com [192.26.80.37]) by cthulhu.engr.sgi.com (980427.SGI.8.8.8/970903.SGI.AUTOCF) via ESMTP id HAA14932 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:33:53 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (andy@derfel99.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from mail1.svr.pol.co.uk (mail1.svr.pol.co.uk [195.92.193.18]) by sgi.com (980327.SGI.8.8.8-aspam/980304.SGI-aspam: SGI does not authorize the use of its proprietary systems or networks for unsolicited or bulk email from the Internet.) via ESMTP id HAA06563 for ; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 07:33:52 -0700 (PDT) mail_from (andy@derfel99.freeserve.co.uk) Received: from modem-86.neptunium.dialup.pol.co.uk ([62.136.46.86] helo=snafu) by mail1.svr.pol.co.uk with smtp (Exim 2.12 #1) id 10xX38-0005fp-00 for linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com; Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:33:50 +0100 Message-ID: <002701bebf17$cd9e4fd0$0a02030a@snafu> From: "Andrew Linfoot" To: References: <19990622032859.B6955@thepuffingroup.com> <19990622152145.A1059@uni-koblenz.de> <19990623014923.A8953@thepuffingroup.com> <19990625002853.D17220@uni-koblenz.de> Subject: Re: File corruption Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:34:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2314.1300 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I have been running 2.2.1 on my indy for about 3 weeks now and have encountered problems like this, in fact i am surprised at how stable the box is, i have been doing some quite large builds of qt, kde and the like too. If this is reproducible then i would be prepared to experiment on one of my boxes. The only gripe i have is that the scsi driver breaks when i attach external devices, any ideas? Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralf Baechle To: Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 11:28 PM Subject: Re: File corruption > On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:49:23AM +0200, Ulf Carlsson wrote: > > > > And under which kernel version did this start to happen? > > > > 2.2.1 I think. > > Are you shure? The problem Alan is tracking started to hit from 2.2.7 on. > If 2.2.1 already starts making these kind of troubles then we probably > track two different problems. > > > Unfortunately I don't have IRIX. However, I have a 133 MHz R4600 CPU with 512 k > > board cache. I have two 1 Gb SCSI driver connected. > > Is this a low-mem configuration? The problem Alan is tracking apparently > seems to hit low mem systems more often. > > Ralf > From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Message-ID: <002701bebf17$cd9e4fd0$0a02030a@snafu> From: "Andrew Linfoot" References: <19990622032859.B6955@thepuffingroup.com> <19990622152145.A1059@uni-koblenz.de> <19990623014923.A8953@thepuffingroup.com> <19990625002853.D17220@uni-koblenz.de> Subject: Re: File corruption Date: Fri, 25 Jun 1999 15:34:15 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com To: linux@cthulhu.engr.sgi.com Message-ID: <19990625143415.lcfbBD2uf9k7HTqqdw0jXKsswy8SnARim_SQ_UsvtiQ@z> I have been running 2.2.1 on my indy for about 3 weeks now and have encountered problems like this, in fact i am surprised at how stable the box is, i have been doing some quite large builds of qt, kde and the like too. If this is reproducible then i would be prepared to experiment on one of my boxes. The only gripe i have is that the scsi driver breaks when i attach external devices, any ideas? Andy ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralf Baechle To: Sent: Thursday, June 24, 1999 11:28 PM Subject: Re: File corruption > On Wed, Jun 23, 1999 at 01:49:23AM +0200, Ulf Carlsson wrote: > > > > And under which kernel version did this start to happen? > > > > 2.2.1 I think. > > Are you shure? The problem Alan is tracking started to hit from 2.2.7 on. > If 2.2.1 already starts making these kind of troubles then we probably > track two different problems. > > > Unfortunately I don't have IRIX. However, I have a 133 MHz R4600 CPU with 512 k > > board cache. I have two 1 Gb SCSI driver connected. > > Is this a low-mem configuration? The problem Alan is tracking apparently > seems to hit low mem systems more often. > > Ralf >