Re: Linux 2.6.9-rc3

Pascal Schmidt
2004-10-01T12:36:41Z

On Fri, 01 Oct 2004 05:40:05 +0200, you wrote in linux.kernel:

> Beats me, Clemens. But at the time, I got curious and the problem was
> 100% repeatable using the bz2 src code files I had. The third time I
> went after the srcs and patches to build that kernel, I got the .gz
> versions of both, and they worked first time. Then I went back to
> the .bz2's and was seeing the same problem as the first 2 downloads
> gave me. I mv'd that src file & patch, went after the .bz2's again
> (for the 3rd time), and that time it worked flawlessly. Both the 2nd
> and 3rd dl's files had the exact same md5sum too. Go figure.

bzip2 stresses the CPU much more than gzip does. Maybe there's
a cooling problem, and of course you won't see error messages when
the CPU starts making mistakes...

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Ciao,
Pascal