misc/62611: bzip2 have problems on pentium 100 (pkg_add dont work)

[Kris Kennaway]

The following reply was made to PR misc/62611; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Kris Kennaway <kris at obsecurity.org>
To: Przemyslaw Laczynski <torindel at wp.pl>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: misc/62611: bzip2 have problems on pentium 100 (pkg_add dont work)
Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 21:58:48 -0800

 On Mon, Feb 09, 2004 at 06:40:54PM -0800, Przemyslaw Laczynski wrote:
 
 > On pentium 100 with intel board on chipset 430FX bzip behaves like this:
 > On compressing/decompressing if file is larger (eg couple MB) bzip2 dosent compress/decompress files it gives 0-150k output and then countinusly uses swap witchout any action
 > top says something like that:
 > 1298 root -20 0 7664K 1644K swread 0:10  1.17% 1.17% bzip2
 > swap usage changes from 0 to 1MB, bzip2 changes size of resurces (+/- 300k) and cpu utilization but it doesnt produce any more output. It not return any errors nor kill its process.
 > Smaler outpus compress/decompress  corectly
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 > compress decompress something larger (MB)
 > eg.
 > buzip2 perl-5.6.1_13.tbz
 > OR
 > pkg_add perl-5.6.1_13.tbz
 
 If it's swapping because there system doesn't have enough memory (you
 didn't specify how much), it's going to work really slow (really
 REALLY slow on a Pentium 100).  How long did you wait before deciding
 it was not producing any more output?
 
 Kris