Re: [parisc-linux] Re: Trying to install sarge on a C200

[Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 05:40:18PM +0200, Thibaut VARENE wrote:
> The box would die at random, most often during boot time. IIRC, Grant
> and others have experienced that bug, see the following thread:
> http://lists.parisc-linux.org/pipermail/parisc-linux/2005-April/thread.html#26250

I just tried to reproduce that bug but could not with 2.6.14-rc2-pa2 on a
dual 750Mhz J6700.

I ran both rsync / --> /mnt and /home --> /mnt/home.
Both completed without errors or other hiccups.

root@gggj6k:/# time rsync -aWx --stats /home/ /mnt/home

Number of files: 116446
Number of files transferred: 107039
Total file size: 13493955216 bytes
Total transferred file size: 13493951930 bytes
Literal data: 13493951930 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 2103590
File list generation time: 2.393 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 13502592996
Total bytes received: 2411320

sent 13502592996 bytes  received 2411320 bytes  10739566.06 bytes/sec
total size is 13493955216  speedup is 1.00

real    20m58.805s
user    4m50.882s
sys     5m2.385s
root@gggj6k:/# 


I'm inclined to agree with James about FP register usage/saving
being the cause of the XFS problems.

thanks,
grant