Fwd: worth a bug?
I forgot to mention the error message that was issued
on crash of the computational procedure alluded to on
previous mail as reported below:
Read Failed
int2e_buf_read:asynch IO failed 1301
To this regard, I am receiving the suggestion that
probably there was an I/O issue with the swap, either
because the swap was full or because of hardware
problems.
The computational procedure was going on strongly
before the crash, and, restarted, is continuing
strongly. I must say that I never emptied or
maintained anyway the swap, which was set 7GB on
installation of debian amd64 etch. Ram 8GB. Now I am
expanding to 16GB ram. Is that swap still OK? I know
that the old rule of swap size vs ram is difficult to
follow (or needs not be followed?) today with the
large mem modules, nonetheless, given the huge size of
computing hessians and hamiltonians, I think the two
questions may still be posed:
---Cleaning the swap from time to time?
---Swap size with respect to ram size?
Posing the question to Tyan Europe is useless, because
they refused to answer far simpler questions on a
previous occasion (they said: Linux OS not supported),
while Tyan Taiwan did not answer at all.
Thanks for your kind attention
francesco pietra
--- Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:55:39 -0800 (PST)
> From: Francesco Pietra <chiendarret@yahoo.com>
> Subject: worth a bug?
> To: debian64 <debian-amd64@lists.debian.org>
>
> I wonder whether a bug should be placed. If so,
> which
> files should accompany it.
>
> amd64 etch, debian raid1, on dual-opteron machine.
>
> During heavy mathematical computation largely based
> on
> libimf.so (no X installed), overnigth application
> halted reporting unclassified error (bug placed to
> the
> non-debian application).
>
> Changed terminal, read (cat) files, then
> #shutdown -h now
> failed to shutdown the system. Last portion of the
> screen dealt with:
> ---mdadm monitor
> ---APC UPS power management
> ---Klogd
> ---syslogd
> ---portmap daemon
> ---ifdowncleaned
> ---deactivate swap
>
> then, literally:
>
> Will now umount local filesystem: could not find
> /dev/.static/dev in mtab
> /dev/.static/dev umounted
> /dev/md0 umounted
>
> Halted at that. The machine allowed to change
> terminal, to ask for a new user, though no username
> could be printed from any terminal, and the original
> one did not respond. Ctrl-Alt-Delete was nor
> accepted.
> I could only switch off power.
>
> On restart this morning, evrything looks like OK
> after
> a forced (by the system) scan of all partitions,
> because it had been mounted more that 30 times.
>
> Thanks a lot for your kind attention.
>
> francesco pietra
>
>
>
>
>
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