From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from oss.sgi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g4E12knC003325 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 18:02:46 -0700 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) id g4E12kd0003324 for linux-mips-outgoing; Mon, 13 May 2002 18:02:46 -0700 X-Authentication-Warning: oss.sgi.com: majordomo set sender to owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com using -f Received: from av.mvista.com (gateway-1237.mvista.com [12.44.186.158]) by oss.sgi.com (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g4E12inC003317 for ; Mon, 13 May 2002 18:02:44 -0700 Received: from mvista.com (av [127.0.0.1]) by av.mvista.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id SAA04326; Mon, 13 May 2002 18:02:56 -0700 Message-ID: <3CE061E0.8000909@mvista.com> Date: Mon, 13 May 2002 18:01:20 -0700 From: Jun Sun User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.2.1) Gecko/20010901 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: deleted /dev/zero Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk I am running some stress tests (such as ltp, netperf, lmbench, etc) on the SMP swarm board. Once in a while I notice /dev/zero will get deleted. This causes all kinds of weired problems (such as internal gcc error. Why?) I don't know how to re-produce this problem yet. It seems a little non-deterministic. I would appreciate any insight into this problem. Jun