Re: [Sks-devel] sks (fast)build memory/cache problem

[Kristian Fiskerstrand]

On 2012-07-01 04:29, Stephan Beyer wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 30.06.2012 13:31, Stephan Beyer wrote:
>> The DB is already building based on my last keydump.
> No, it was not. The process got stuck after a few minutes or seconds.
> In fact, neither build nor fastbuild works.
> I already "hg bisect"ed the sources and it did not work with any
> version that compiles on my system.
>
> What happens? sks hangs (deadlocks) at futex(), says strace.
> Interestingly, it seems to depend on the cache size:
>

I'm still not able to reproduce error in my own setup, but looking for
various causes I came across an interesting thread at [0] that seem to
indicate that the filesystem blocksize can be a factor. I'm using 4k
blocksize on ext3 myself, does anyone having problems happen to use a
smaller blocksize on the FS?


[0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=680508

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