From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0CC6198005 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1DC7E06EE; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:24:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (mta-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.7.73]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75643E066A for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 08:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; DelSp=Yes; Format=Flowed Received: from mx-out-1.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.5.186]) by mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-7.04 (built Sep 26 2008)) with ESMTP id <0MK100CIHZCDL120@mta-2.ms.rz.RWTH-Aachen.de> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:24:13 +0100 (CET) X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.84,891,1355094000"; d="scan'208";a="215258613" Received: from relay-2.ms.rz.rwth-aachen.de (HELO relay.rwth-aachen.de) ([134.130.7.75]) by mx-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de with ESMTP; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:24:13 +0100 Received: from numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de [134.130.161.252]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.14.4+Sun/8.13.8/1) with ESMTP id r2M8OCMR006106 for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:24:12 +0100 (CET) Received: from numa-i (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by numa-i.igpm.rwth-aachen.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E82CFBDD for ; Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:24:13 +0100 (CET) Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 09:24:13 +0100 From: Helmut Jarausch Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <1363754548.1800.1.camel@hydra> <1363816251.2829.48.camel@hydra> In-reply-to: <1363816251.2829.48.camel@hydra> X-Mailer: Balsa 2.5.0a-5-g1cdd9c6 Message-id: <1363940653.5636.0@numa-i> X-Archives-Salt: 20264f18-6a11-4de8-a22d-d0bf055615ea X-Archives-Hash: 51c9c7b11cd865fc523ea105bc177832 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.