On Thu, March 21, 2013 21:03, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2013-03-20, Carlos Hendson <skyc...@gmx.net> wrote: > >> 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.
Consumer harddrives, which I am assuming you are using, will stall indefinitely untill they have fixed the error they are encountering. RAID-drives (With TLER = Time Limited Error Recovery) will return sooner with an error-code which can then be handled by the controller and/or driver. In other words, yes, these can explain the stalls during compiles. -- Joost
