Am 26.03.2013 15:13, schrieb J. Roeleveld: > 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.
no, they don't. PATa drives take 30secs. SATA not even a tenth. That is why dmesg can fill up with hdd errors and you don't realize it until a reboot and the drive not spinning up anymore. > > 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. they would - if it wasn't already established that it was overheating.
