Messages in this thread | | | From | "really " <> | Subject | Re: /sbin/update behaves weirdly under 2.3.11 | Date | Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:08:58 -0400 (EDT) |
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i found i had to recompile 'update' with the same params as the kernel was compiled with, specifically "-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2" and then 'update' worked ok. This was with 2.3.11-pre8, haven't tried 2.3.11, but the symptoms i had were the same.
b <mason@soo.com>
> When I first booted up 2.3.11 (compiled with gcc 2.95 19990718, > running on a glibc-2.1.1 system), /sbin/update (both versions 1.3 > and 2.11) apparently wouldn't run. After a while, it seemed that > "/bin/sync" took a (relatively) long time to complete, so I decided > that some daemon should be started. > > Two hours later (with the process IDs in the 800's), /sbin/update > did run successfully, but it tried to suck up as much CPU as > possible. > > Now I seem to be getting more normal behavior by running > "/sbin/update -S", so that it calls sync() rather than bdflush(1,0). > > Any suggestions?
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