Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-26 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am 26.03.2013 15:13, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > On Thu, March 21, 2013 21:03, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: >> >>> 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?

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-26 Thread J. Roeleveld
On Thu, March 21, 2013 21:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: > >> 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 "recove

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-22 Thread Helmut Jarausch
On 03/20/2013 10:50:51 PM, Carlos Hendson wrote: I started a long test on the hard drive: smartctl -t long /dev/sda smartctl -a /dev/sda also appears to indicate various errors (the output is attached). I'll trying to track down some documentation as to what they're actually reporting. Lo

[gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-21 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson 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 000Old_age Always > - 24182

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Carlos Hendson
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 16:14 +, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: > > > That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of > > memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported. > > FWIW. I've had flakey memory that ran memcheck fine for se

[gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-20, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: > >> That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of >> memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported. > > FWIW. I've had flakey memory that ran memcheck fine for several hours > and multi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Paul Hartman
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:14 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: > > On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: > > > That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of > > memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported. > > FWIW. I've had flakey memory that ran memcheck fine for se

[gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

2013-03-20 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson wrote: > That's by no means conclusive, however, I've also run a complete pass of > memcheck for over an hour without any issues reported. FWIW. I've had flakey memory that ran memcheck fine for several hours and multiple passes -- but if I let it run long enough,