Re: [gentoo-user] Can't emerge www-client/mozilla-1.7.10-r1 (kernel bug?)

[Jules Colding <colding@omesc.com>]

On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 18:14 +0200, Richard Fish wrote:
> Jules Colding wrote:
> 
> >I tried the aforementioned script just to see if that picked up
> >anything. Lo and behold... it segfaulted in mkdir. I am beginning to
> >suspect a subtle reiserfs (mounted with noatime and notail) bug as I am
> >only seeing segfaults with mkdir and only under high load. There was
> >something in /var/log/messages as well. Script, output, log and info
> >below.
> >
> >  
> >
> 
> Um, what version of reiserfs are we talking about here?  

Whatever is in gentoo-sources-2.6.12-r6. dmesg tells me that it is
format "3.6".


> I recall 
> reading recently on lkml (or maybe it was somewhere else..) reports that 
> reiser4 has known and serious problems on non-x86 platforms, and maybe 
> that extends to AMD64 as well....

Yes, reiser4 is not quite stable yet.

> If you are using the stable reiser3.6 (the only option available in the 
> gentoo-sources or vanilla-sources), well, I would be very surprised if 
> this was a bug there, because noatime and notail are very common options 
> and it is a very popular filesystem.  I would put my money on bad ram or 
> memory timings in this case.

I would expect other things to fail too if it was bad RAM or memory
timings, right? The only failure scenario is mkdir under high load which
to me points towards s specific problem area in the code. This is just
an unqualified guess, naturally...

-- 
  jules


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