[lug] Re: rsync/tar/gz EOF errors -- Update

[D. Stimits]

John Starkey wrote:
> 
> On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, John Starkey wrote:
> 
> > I'm getting the following error while trying to rsync one of 9 tar.gz
> > files. The rest are fine.
> >
> > inflate returned -3 (0 bytes)
> > unexpected EOF in read_timout
> >
> > A delete and re-tar.gz doesn't fix it. If I only tar it rsync works fine.
> 
> Sorry for the second post. I wasn't getting an error when rsync'ing tar
> files so I didn't run verbose on them. I just did and I something that may
> hint that there's still an issue.
> 
> false_alarms = 190
> 
> Just sounds like files were opened but unchanged. Not sure about that so
> incase I'm wrong.....
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> John
> 
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On the one that seems to get an error, if you repeatedly gzip it and
gunzip it, does the file size change? Compression is one of those things
that tends to stress ram (a recent topic), you might want to test with
memtest86:
http://www.teresaudio.com/memtest86/

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com