Hardware - no way -Re: Crashes maybe due to: "error writing 4 unbuffered bytes"

[Trevor Marshall]

Dear JW,
I spent hours checking and upgrading my hardware. There is nothing wrong
with it. It is a 'mature' Pentium-II 400MHz system that has been running my
servers WITHOUT ANY CRASHES for nearly 2 years now 24/7

Listen to me: "The crashes are dues to rsync"

There is an IDENTICAL report from a totally different source at 

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%2B%22rsync:+error+writing+4+unbuffered+by
tes+-+exiting:+Broken+pipe%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=aemsfq%24894%
241%40FreeBSD.csie.NCTU.edu.tw&rnum=1

Oh - except he was Running Red Hat linux - so don't go blaming SuSe.

Appreciate you trying to help, but I didn't come down in the last
rain-shower :-)

Trevor
http://www.TrevorMarshall.com

>If running rsync crashes your (non-MS) server you have a
>problem with the server, not rsync.  On a linux system
>application caused system crashes are either bad hardware or
>kernel bugs.
>
>Unless you have tweaked out SuSE i would say you have a
>hardware problem.  Rsync will stress some parts of the
>system so that is probably why you haven't had crashes
>before.
>
>Look in the system logs.  The pipe errors seem more likely
>to be cause by bad memory than disk.
>
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