Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 15 May 2004 20:58:49 -0700 (PDT) | | From | Linus Torvalds <> | | Subject | Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page? (was Re: Assertion `s && s->tree' failed: The saga continues.) |
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On Sat, 15 May 2004, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Two hours so far here. > > bix:/usr/src> ~/clone.sh > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 > > That's 2.6.6-mm2+, 2GB 4-way x86.
I think Steven's machine (according to an earlier 'dmesg') has something like 384MB of RAM and just one PIII-450 CPU.
With that setup, he's likely getting a lot of IO (and possibly even swapping). The BK disk working set for the kernel archive is something like half a gig per tree, I think.
In contrast, your nicer machine will do the whole stress-test basically totally cached (well, BK will force writeback with fsync, but it will all be pretty synchronous with nothing else going on).
So if it's IO-related or happens when swapping...
But again, neither of those should usually cause that kind of strange partial-page corruption.
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