RE: linux gzip flakiness?

[Ken Shih]

Thank you so much for your response, Stepan.
Just some responses...
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.
2. re: multi proc.  Yup it has 2 cpus
3. re: 1.3.5.  Hm. It's a production enviornment, so I doubt they'll let me
install a dev version.

Again, thanks.
k

-----Original Message-----
From: Stepan Kasal [mailto:address@hidden
Sent: Tuesday, March 16, 2004 2:33 AM
To: Ken Shih
Cc: 'address@hidden'
Subject: Re: linux gzip flakiness?


Hello,

On Mon, Mar 15, 2004 at 11:49:54AM -0500, Ken Shih wrote:
> some more commands to generate a report.  Occasionally, say once a month
or
> so, I'll get these error messages from the gzipped file, when gunzipping
or

this looks weird.  There might be a problem with your computer.
Have you verified the S.M.A.R.T. registers of the disks?

> 4. address@hidden kens]$ uname -a
> Linux md101 2.4.20-8smp #1 SMP Thu Mar 13 17:45:54 EST 2003 i686 i686 i386
> GNU/Linux

Do you really have a multiprocessor machine?
Perhaps you could change your kernel, or even recompile it from sources...

> 5. address@hidden kens]$ gzip -V
> gzip 1.3.3
> (2002-03-08)

The newest devel version seems to be gzip 1.3.5, perhaps...

The bug address is bug-gzip at gnuorg but it probably leads to bug-gnu-utils
anyway...

HTH,
        Stepan Kasal