I realize SUSE 10 isn't officially supported, just wondering if the powers that be have any thoughts on this odd behaviour.
We have a farm all with the latest SUSE 10 installed. The hardware varies between 32-bit P3 and P4, and a 64 bit Intel thrown in for good measure. We've always used the RH9 certified download even after upgrading to 10, since it comes with backward compatible libs. Worked fine(still does).
I figured that we should probably start installing the RHEL4 flavour, just because even though it's “behind” SUSE 10, it's not quite as behind as RH9. Everything appears to work fine, except for one thing:
On the P3 machines on the farm, we're getting bizarre corruption in the images that use our local VEX code. It's strictly VEX, not the C code, and I've gotten it to the point where I have IFD that will render fine on any P4 systems, but not on the P3's. It renders a legit image, it's just getting bizarre missing or corrupt pixels. It's not even 100% - almost all of the time this happens, but every blue moon, a given system will work fine. This was driving me nuts until I remembered the RHEL upgrade. I switched back to the RH9 Houdini package, and it's fine.
All systems have the same OS, same install, not getting any errors messages anywhere from mantra…and yet results are different. Seems to me this shouldn't be possible unless the mantra in the RHEL compile is somehow relying on hardware that's not there in a P3? Thoughts?
Anyway, switching back to RH9 fixes it - we're not hurting, just can't make sense of it.
Thanks for any opinions.
SUSE 10 has:
glibc-2.3.5-40
gcc-4.0.2_20050901-3
Cheers,
J.C.
Linux Flavour on SUSE 10
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Inconclusive. It works with that envar set, but today I'm unable to get the old RHEL distro to fail either without it set! I'd need to run the farm back the way it was for a while to start this triggering. No reboots, as mentioned this only shows up when you need it the least.
Anyway, we'll stick with the RH9 release for now to be safe. Whenever that goes away, we'll revisit.
Cheers,
J.C.
Anyway, we'll stick with the RH9 release for now to be safe. Whenever that goes away, we'll revisit.
Cheers,
J.C.
John Coldrick
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