Re: Question on LSB-os and SuSE 7.2

[Christopher Yeoh <cyeoh@samba.org>]

Stephanie Glass writes:
> taken T.mmap, T.munmap and T.munmap_P test cases from their directories.
> But each time requires that I reboot the system (usually having to run fsck
> -f), then remove the test cases  and start all over so it has been very
> slow.  Since it then stops just a little further along.  I still haven't
> made it through the entire test suite.
> 
> This does not happen on RedHat 7.1 when I run the same test suite on it
> taking the same defaults.  Any suggestions?

Hi Stephanie,

I think this is a kernel problem. I've seen similar behaviour. At
varying times over the last few months and different machines (and the
kernel would have been changing) sometimes the tests have locked the
machine up tight, sometimes the tests freeze but can just be Ctrl-c'd,
and sometimes they complete.

A couple of things you could try on the SuSE system to confirm this:

- Replace the kernel with a recent 2.4.x kernel

- Replace the the kernel with one as used on the Red Hat 7.1 system
  (with all the supplied patches).

Regards,

Chris.
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