New alpha 5.x bug

[Wilko Bulte]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 05:34:08PM -0800, Kris Kennaway wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 12:31:47AM +0100, Bernd Walter wrote:
> 
> > The question is what kind of bug this is to only trigger on the port
> > cluster.
> 
> A statistically unlikely one.  40 packages out of 7500 is a very low
> hit rate..that's about 5 packages per machine over a week (duration of
> the build), so you'd probably have to run a single machine for a day
> or more under the right load pattern in order to trigger it.

Sure a nasty one.. 

I know David is working to get some DS10s in to the ports cluster, it would
be highly interesting to see if they exhibit the same behaviour. Obviously
the DS10s are faster, so that might cover up the issue by other timing 
(iff it is timing / pattern related of course)

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