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Re: linux gzip flakiness?
From: |
Stepan Kasal |
Subject: |
Re: linux gzip flakiness? |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Mar 2004 08:33:10 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.4.1i |
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