On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Looking at the difference between the output of smartctl for before
> and during the test, there has been an increase in errors detected
> for ID #195
>
> Before test:
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 001 001 000 Old_age Always
> - 241822
>
> During test:
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered 0x001a 001 001 000 Old_age Always
> - 243582
>
> Could this be the cause of the stalls during compiles? If it is the
> cause, is it possible for the kernel to detect such failures and report
> them?
I think that as long as the errors are "recovered" they shouldn't
cause problems. The $64 question is whether those errors are
indicating that you're headed for unrecoverable errors (which will
cause problems). If they seem to be increasing in frequency, I'd
probably be a little worried.
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