Re: linux gzip flakiness?

[Stepan Kasal]

Hello,

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 10:03:25AM -0500, Ken Shih wrote:
> 1. re: SMART registers.  I don't thing we have smartmon-ux installed, but
> i'll check to see if there are any other disk monitoring programs installed.

smartmon is a daemon which _monitors_ the registers.
You don't need that (at the moment).

You need just a utility to read the regs once.
Just in case you use redhat:

$ rpm -qf `which smartctl`
kernel-utils-2.4-8.29

> 3. re: 1.3.5.  Hm. It's a production enviornment, so I doubt they'll let me
> install a dev version.

1.3.3 is a dev version, too.  The latest official stable release from GNU is
        gzip 1.2.4 (18 Aug 93)
or rather gzip-1.2.4a which seems to be packed at 1999.
Life is difficult.
But yes, 1.3.3 came with your OS, so it was presumably tested by the vendor...

You could install 1.3.5 along with the 1.3.3 and then gzip the file by both
programs.  Then you'll see how will these two behave.
I beleive that this mode of operation is not risky.

And trying a custom compiled kernel might help, too.

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal