Re: /sbin/update behaves weirdly under 2.3.11

really mason@soo.com (mason@soo.com")
Thu, 22 Jul 1999 17:08:58 -0400 (EDT)

i found i had to recompile 'update' with the same params as the
kernel was compiled with, specifically "-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2"
and then 'update' worked ok. This was with 2.3.11-pre8, haven't
tried 2.3.11, but the symptoms i had were the same.

b
<mason@soo.com>

> When I first booted up 2.3.11 (compiled with gcc 2.95 19990718,
> running on a glibc-2.1.1 system), /sbin/update (both versions 1.3
> and 2.11) apparently wouldn't run. After a while, it seemed that
> "/bin/sync" took a (relatively) long time to complete, so I decided
> that some daemon should be started.
>
> Two hours later (with the process IDs in the 800's), /sbin/update
> did run successfully, but it tried to suck up as much CPU as
> possible.
>
> Now I seem to be getting more normal behavior by running
> "/sbin/update -S", so that it calls sync() rather than bdflush(1,0).
>
> Any suggestions?

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