[Udpcast] udpcast gzip and lzop

[Thomas Kuehling]

Hi,

On Tue, 2005-12-27 at 11:04 -0400, D Teed wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> In udpcast it is normal to get some "timeout not answered"
> when the receiving buffer is full and the bottleneck is
> on the compression or write to disk.  It just means the
> sender wanted to provide more data and the receiver
> couldn't handle it at that second.

i know, but at one point, i'll get only TimeOuts, the HDDs where i want
to mirror to are working and then the i got an error. At the moment, i
couldn't get more information, because the point of the abort is
sporadic.

> However the other errors are more significant and cause
> real failure.  I'd try another client machine and see if
> the same happens, or boot up a Linux rescue disk/CDROM
> of some sort and try a memory testing program to see if that
> part of the hardware is reliable when pushed for 30 minutes
> or more.

If i could help you, message me please. I am back at office on the 2nd
of January and try to rebuild the szenario.

> --Donald Teed
> 
> 
> On Tue, 27 Dec 2005, Pierre CANAL wrote:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > I use udpcast for test. I make and image of /home with or without
> > compression perfectly.
> > But when I want to send image , if there is no compression it's Ok (some
> > timeout notAnswered[0]...but finally it's ok)
> > When  I use lzop or gzip, I get an error sometimes on the sender, sometimes
> > on the sender :
> > I have a lot of
> > Timeout notAnswered=[0} notReady=[0] nrAns=0 nrReady=0 nrPart=1 avg=8121 and
> > so on...
> >
> > Dropping client because of timeout lzop <stdin> checksum error...
> > or invalid operand PREEMPT and crash server ! process udp-sender Stack ...
> > Call Trace ...
> > or Gzip stop Bad EIPvalue SIGSEGV ....
> > And strange thing ..
> > With no compression the speed is 80Mbps
> > with lzop 20 Mbps
> > with gzip 7Mbps
> >
> > My CPU is an Athlon 2400+ (not so bad), I use kernel 2.6.8 on a Debian
> > Sarge.
> >
> > Any ideas ?
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Pierre
> >
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