[gentoo-user] Re: System freezes during compiles

[Grant Edwards]

On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson <skyclan@×××.net> wrote:

> Looking at the difference between the output of smartctl for before
> and during the test, there has been an increase in errors detected
> for ID #195
>
> Before test:
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   001   001   000    Old_age   Always
> -       241822
>
> During test:
> 195 Hardware_ECC_Recovered  0x001a   001   001   000    Old_age   Always
> -       243582
>
> Could this be the cause of the stalls during compiles?  If it is the
> cause, is it possible for the kernel to detect such failures and report
> them?

I think that as long as the errors are "recovered" they shouldn't
cause problems.  The $64 question is whether those errors are
indicating that you're headed for unrecoverable errors (which will
cause problems).  If they seem to be increasing in frequency, I'd
probably be a little worried.

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