On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 11:06 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

quoted

So, the question is why the kernel compile workload works for me.  What
kind of hardware are you running (ram, cpu, disks?)

Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     T7700  @ 2.40GHz
Memory 2G
Disk 80G (partition was 20G)

It seems you have the secret to corrupting things.  I'll try to
reproduce with smaller partitions and less ram here.

-chris