> What's your approximate test case, is it some script that > performs the big directory operations you described in your > original report? I run "emerge --sync && emerge --metadata", but these commands are Gentoo-specific. Both of them read/modify/parse the portage tree(a directory containing 26264 sub-directories and 113530 files). > Can I have a copy? I'd like to trigger this here and debug > it locally if possible. One of these should help you to trigger the bug: Option 1 (works sometimes) $ wget ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/snapshots/portage-latest.tar.lzma $ unlzma portage-latest.tar.lzma $ while [ true ] $ do $ tar -xf portage-latest.tar $ rm -r portage $ done Option 2 (works always) $ wget ftp://ftp.ucsb.edu/pub/mirrors/linux/gentoo/releases/sparc/2008.0_beta2/stages/stage3-sparc64-2008.0_beta2.tar.bz2 $ mkdir gentoo-chroot $ cd gentoo-chroot $ tar -xjpf ../stage3-sparc64-2008.0_beta2.tar.bz2 $ cp /etc/resolv.conf etc/ $ mount -t proc proc proc/ $ chroot . /bin/bash $ env-update $ source /etc/profile $ emerge --sync $ # if your system is still alive, one of these commands will kill it for sure $ while [ true ] $ do $ rm -r /var/cache/edb/dep $ emerge --metadata $ done Regards, Friedrich -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe sparclinux" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
