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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@igpm.rwth-aachen.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles
Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:24:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1363940653.5636.0@numa-i> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1363816251.2829.48.camel@hydra>

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.
> 
> 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?
> 

These numbers are misleading. You might have a look at
http://www.users.on.net/~fzabkar/HDD/Seagate_SER_RRER_HEC.html

Helmut.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-03-22  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-20  4:42 [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20  8:17 ` Mick
2013-03-20 10:10   ` Neil Bothwick
2013-03-20 21:49   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20 16:14 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2013-03-20 16:49   ` Paul Hartman
2013-03-20 16:59   ` Grant Edwards
2013-03-20 21:50   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-21 20:03     ` Grant Edwards
2013-03-26 14:13       ` J. Roeleveld
2013-03-26 19:39         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-22  8:24     ` Helmut Jarausch [this message]
2013-03-20 17:43 ` [gentoo-user] " Daniel Wagener
2013-03-20 21:49   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20 19:57 ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-20 21:50   ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-21  5:45     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-21  6:50       ` Carlos Hendson
2013-03-21 14:56         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-03-22  7:58   ` [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles [SOLVED] Carlos Hendson
2013-03-20 21:27 ` [gentoo-user] System freezes during compiles Paul Hartman
2013-03-20 21:55   ` Carlos Hendson

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