New alpha 5.x bug

[Kris Kennaway]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:31:47AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:

> The question is what kind of bug this is to only trigger on the port
> cluster.

A statistically unlikely one.  40 packages out of 7500 is a very low
hit rate..that's about 5 packages per machine over a week (duration of
the build), so you'd probably have to run a single machine for a day
or more under the right load pattern in order to trigger it.

> vm/pipe sounds reasonable to believe for this kind of corruption, but
> it never happened for me.
> Possibly I'm not pushing vm that much.
> I wonder if setting vm.idlezero_enable=0 has an influence - this will
> not change the danger of this bug, but if it changes sympotoms might
> give a good indication of the direction to search.

I'll give that a try.  I suppose I'll have to revert the machines to
an older -current to get away from the latest (DDB?) bugs.

Kris
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