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

[jw schultz]

On Sun, Sep 08, 2002 at 06:03:05PM -0700, Trevor Marshall wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 

Repeating myself here, Trevor sent separately to me and here.

If it isn't hardware report the kernel crashes to
linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org with ksymoops et al.
See kernel-newbies.org (url from memory) for instructions.

When a user app crashes the kernel it is the kernel's fault.


> 
> >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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