Odd integrity problem
Matt Mackall
mpm at selenic.com
Tue Nov 18 20:46:02 UTC 2008
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 11:55 -0800, Greg Lindahl wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:28:59PM -0600, Matt Mackall wrote:
>
> > Probably a transient memory error. Does your machine have ECC?
>
> Yes.
>
> Hm, looking in the syslog, I did have several OOMs during the cronjob.
> It was killing processes other than hg, but, two of them didn't kill a
> process, and one of those was in an execve(). So perhaps it did affect
> the hg verify.
Since it didn't report what sort of error occurred, I'm going to assume
it was out of memory. Perhaps it was trying to unpack a large-ish file
revision.
--
Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.
More information about the Mercurial
mailing list