On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Christian T. Steigies <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Is it easy to trigger?
>
> No, unfortunately(?) not. I have the impression it happens more often when
> the load is high (or maybe when swap is used), but I don't have any proof
> for that. Sometimes every buildd-[uploader|watcher] fails a few times in a
> row, and then again everything runs smoothly for days.

That sounds like memory corruption in a cache. As soon as it's reloaded
from disk, it works again.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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