On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 09:24:49 +0000, Duncan wrote: > Jim Henderson posted on Sat, 29 Aug 2009 05:00:14 +0000 as excerpted: > >> I'd normally agree, but the system is pretty heavily used - video >> encoding going on in the background at the moment, lots of compression/ >> decompression going on, and encrypted filesystems in use. A fair >> amount of things that would reflect a problem quickly if it were >> hardware- related. > > Not so much video encoding, but /certainly/ encrypted filesystems should > be /all/ screwed up if it's the memory going, and as I mentioned (quoted > below), lossless compression such as bzip2, as long as it's checksummed, > should be showing it too.
Yeah, and I'm not seeing that. Pan isn't stored in the encfs'd directories, but other stuff is and it's heavily used. >> On the weird cached articles issue, I just duped it and the cache files >> are messed up. I grepped the text and found both cache files. Hadn't >> noticed before, but the message text that *should* be there is appended >> to the end of the correct file. Threading looks like a likely culprit >> - I'll reduce the number of concurrent tasks across all servers to 1 >> each and see if that helps. > > Yeah, thread-races could be it. It could also be the filesystem, but if > you're running it on encrypted, then no, shouldn't be, unless it's > /just/ the filesystem, on top of the encryption. I think a fsck ran the last time I rebooted (when the kernel was patched about a week ago). > But thread-races would seem to be the likely culprit. > > I don't know if you've tried it or are in a situation where you /can/ > try it or not, but one alternative is K. Haley's pan git repo. That > /does/ mean compiling from source, but unlike gtk/gnome/charles-kerr's > upstream, at least it has current activity, patches applied for several > things, etc. > If you're where you can, trying it would be a good idea. Tho I don't > know of any changes at least as posted here that could affect your > problem, it's worth trying out, anyway. Here's the git protocol URL: > > git://github.com/lostcoder/pan2.git Cool, I'll give that a try. I'm no stranger to building my own binaries. :-) Jim -- Jim Henderson Please keep on-topic replies on the list so everyone benefits _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
