2.3.8 and core dumps w/ bzip2, gzip and large files.

Shane R. Stixrud (shane@souls.net)
Wed, 23 Jun 1999 13:12:17 -0700 (PDT)


2.3.8 seems to have problems when compressing large files. For my test I
tared Redhat 6.0 (the RPMS directory 647 files totalling 464409K) This
completed fine, and I was able to untar this without error. However when
attempting to compress this tar file with either gzip or bzip2 they both
core dump shortly after they begin. Booting 2.2.5 and rerunning the test
produced a clean tar/compress/uncompress/untar w/ bzip2.

My system is as follows.

RedHat 6.0, PII 350, 256M SDRAM, ASus P2B (BX chipset),
IDE FUJITSU MPB3064ATU, ATA DISK drive.

CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL=y
CONFIG_M686=y
CONFIG_X86_WP_WORKS_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_INVLPG=y
CONFIG_X86_BSWAP=y
CONFIG_X86_POPAD_OK=y
CONFIG_X86_TSC=y
CONFIG_X86_GOOD_APIC=y
CONFIG_1GB=y
CONFIG_MTRR=y
CONFIG_MODULES=y
CONFIG_KMOD=y
CONFIG_NET=y
CONFIG_PCI=y
CONFIG_PCI_GODIRECT=y
CONFIG_PCI_DIRECT=y
CONFIG_SYSVIPC=y
CONFIG_BSD_PROCESS_ACCT=y
CONFIG_SYSCTL=y
CONFIG_BINFMT_ELF=y
CONFIG_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_FD=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDISK=y
CONFIG_IDEDISK_MULTI_MODE=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDECD=m
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEPCI=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA_PCI=y
CONFIG_IDEDMA_PCI_AUTO=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=y
CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM=m
CONFIG_PARIDE_PARPORT=m
CONFIG_PACKET=y
CONFIG_UNIX=y
CONFIG_INET=y
CONFIG_SKB_LARGE=y
CONFIG_NETDEVICES=y
CONFIG_NET_ETHERNET=y
CONFIG_NET_VENDOR_3COM=y
CONFIG_VORTEX=m
CONFIG_PPP=m
CONFIG_VT=y
CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTYS=y
CONFIG_UNIX98_PTY_COUNT=256
CONFIG_PRINTER=m
CONFIG_PRINTER_READBACK=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_DEV=m
CONFIG_VIDEO_BT848=m
CONFIG_AUTOFS_FS=m
CONFIG_ISO9660_FS=m
CONFIG_JOLIET=y
CONFIG_PROC_FS=y
CONFIG_DEVPTS_FS=y
CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y
CONFIG_NFS_FS=m
CONFIG_NFSD=m
CONFIG_NFSD_SUN=y
CONFIG_SUNRPC=m
CONFIG_LOCKD=m
CONFIG_NLS=y
CONFIG_NLS_CODEPAGE_437=m
CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
CONFIG_SOUND=m
CONFIG_SOUND_OSS=m
CONFIG_SOUND_SB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_ADLIB=m
CONFIG_SOUND_YM3812=m
CONFIG_LOWLEVEL_SOUND=y
CONFIG_AWE32_SYNTH=m

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