From owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 4 14:18:32 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 11F0516A4CE for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:18:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl [194.109.127.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4A79443FE5 for ; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 14:18:30 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (freebie.xs4all.nl [213.84.32.253]) by smtpzilla3.xs4all.nl (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA4MIQhG048219; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:18:27 +0100 (CET) Received: from freebie.xs4all.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id hA4MIQ0P015304; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:18:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl) Received: (from wkb@localhost) by freebie.xs4all.nl (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) id hA4MIQUk015303; Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:18:26 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 4 Nov 2003 23:18:26 +0100 From: Wilko Bulte To: ticso@cicely.de Message-ID: <20031104221826.GC15210@freebie.xs4all.nl> References: <20031101103955.GA42891@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031104031740.GA67484@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031104124826.GH42463@cicely12.cicely.de> <20031104175552.GA70699@rot13.obsecurity.org> <20031104221251.GJ42463@cicely12.cicely.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20031104221251.GJ42463@cicely12.cicely.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-OS: FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org cc: alpha@freebsd.org cc: Kris Kennaway Subject: Re: New alpha 5.x bug X-BeenThere: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the Alpha List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2003 22:18:32 -0000 On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 11:12:51PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 09:55:52AM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:48:27PM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote: > > > I can't speak for this problem yet, because my test systems are a bit > > > older, but speaking for the pipe corruption: > > > I did a lots of bzip1, tar, scp, nfs(client) without noticing any > > > sign of problem. > > > What is so special with the port cluster? > > > I have no clue about it's design. > > > > It does lots of parallel package builds (untar, pkg_add, compile, tar) and NFS copying. > > Any special NFS options? > tcp, udp, v2, v3, IPv4, IPv6? > > Just to get the picture complete. > The build is local and the package is then copied to a NFS server on > which t has a corrupted CRC? > Is the bzip2 CRC wrong, or the tar CRC (does tar have a CRC?), or both? > Can you say how likely such a corruption is? > Are other packages compiled during copying a package file to the server? > Are the building machines memory stressed while creating the bz file or > while copying it? Hmmm.. the package builders are Miatas right? Are they using a PCI add-in ethernet card? I'm thinking of the Miata's rather fragile DMA stuff in the Pyxis core logic chip. W/ -- | / o / /_ _ wilko@FreeBSD.org |/|/ / / /( (_) Bulte