Re: RedHat 7.3 hung process during compile

["David.Carter-Hitchin" <carterda at ubs dot com>]

Hi,

Sorry I can really add anything specific, but I would try to halve the
problem by running a series of tests - does it happen on a different O/S
compiling the same code (or vice-versa)?  Or with a different gcc? If it is
intermittent then it could well be hardware as pointed out below, but it
could conceivably be due to other factors on that machine - I'd therefore
want to test with the same code and compiler on another machine.  Boeing
surely must have an alternative host to run this on - they're big enough ;-)
Doing such tests should reveal where the problem lies.

Sorry, you've probably thought of all that already..

Cheers,

David Carter-Hitchin,
GSD-Risk-IT, UBS Investment Bank

On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Ken Foskey wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-02-22 at 05:40, David Highley wrote:
> > We have a customer site, Boeing, that is experiencing an intermittent hung
> > process problem doing compiles. We know that this is not the fault of
> > the compiler but hope that someone in the community may have also
> > experienced this situation and found a fix for it. We have searched the
> > RedHat and www.kernel.org sites but found nothing that points to the
> > situation we are experiencing.
>
> Just some ideas, hope they help...
>
> Have you run a memory tester on it?  A lot of these sort of problems
> come back to hardware.  If you download the mepis CD there is a memory
> test on the boot menu.
>
> I am assuming that you have checked the logs,  the situation I had was a
> hard disk failure that was issue messages.  Mine was a lot more terminal
> though, crashed the machine.
>
> Finally you might want to bounce this to the fedora list for some help.
> --
> Thanks
> KenF
> OpenOffice.org developer
>